Britain and Me: readers respond
Here is a selection of your responses reflecting on your relationship with Britain as part of the ‘Irish Times’ series Neighbours.
Can the London-Irish really call themselves Irish?
Second-generation Irish grow up with such a mixed sense of nationality and identity
Moving from London, 1990s Ireland felt like a village
Ireland in 1990 was a monochrome, insular society, though you could sense a desire for change
‘London’s not that far away, but I still get homesick’
The longer I spend here the harder it will be to slip back into once-familiar ways. That scares me.
I moved from Britain to Ireland, where a woman is a second-class citizen
The English didn’t break Irish women’s spirit. Ireland does that all by itself, writes Anthea McTeirnan, in our series on the relationship between Ireland and Britain
Am I Irish, British, European? I’ve been unsure all my life
Is our nationality defined by where we were born? Or is it to do with how we feel?
Hugh Linehan: What have the British ever done for us? Quite a lot
It is clear Ireland and Britain are totally different – except for our language, food, books, education, legal systems, humour and weather
Neighbours: Ireland and Britain are forced into a changing relationship
On this occasion the English have changed the question
Newton Emerson: I do not feel Irish in the slightest
For people my age Northern Ireland really was as British as Finchley
Post-Brexit poll racism not extending to Irish in Britain
Irish Embassy in London yet to receive any complaints of harassment of Irish nationals
Fintan O’Toole: The love-hate relationship between Ireland and Britain
An Irish Times series explores Ireland’s relationship with its bigger, more powerful neighbour, our changing levels of enmity and amity and the small – yet vast – differences that define the two countries
I don’t spend my time in London pining for Ireland
When I’m home for visits, I sometimes feel like an outsider with ‘notions’
British expats in Ireland: You can’t be a ‘stuck-up Brit’
West Cork is home to the greatest concentration of British people living in Ireland. What do they think of Ireland – and Brexit?
Michael Viney’s Ireland: 50 years a blow-in
The English journalist and naturalist – this paper’s longest-serving columnist – has always been a keen-eyed yet sympathetic chronicler of Irish life. So what does he make of our nation in this centenary year?
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