MARIS61
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All this hubbub about miscrediting the author of a supposed Nigerian poem turns out to be more fake news.
Turns out the Nigerian poet who plagiarized it wasn't even born until decades after it was written and it has been quoted and reprinted, and sold on hundreds of commercial Irish saying products all over the world as an Irish blessing.
https://www.google.com/search?q=alw...5#q=always+remember+irish+blessing&tbm=shop&*
A reference to the poem is in a book called ' Under Construction: Pardon the Mess: A Collection of Family-Building Thoughts by Viola Walden that was published in 1994. Albashir Adam Alhassan was born in 1985.
Turns out the Nigerian poet who plagiarized it wasn't even born until decades after it was written and it has been quoted and reprinted, and sold on hundreds of commercial Irish saying products all over the world as an Irish blessing.
https://www.google.com/search?q=alw...5#q=always+remember+irish+blessing&tbm=shop&*
A reference to the poem is in a book called ' Under Construction: Pardon the Mess: A Collection of Family-Building Thoughts by Viola Walden that was published in 1994. Albashir Adam Alhassan was born in 1985.
