Royals at Somme centenary commemoration
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Right. Irish have and always be Irish. I dare ya to get on your bicycle and ride to Ireland and call an a Irish a Brit. After that we can call you Blackeye.
They were all Brits in 1916 when the sovereign state was the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, so they would have had no problem, the vast majority of them, being called Brits, because that's what they were: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland
The UK in 1916
And the people in the northern six counties - Fermanagh, Tyrone, Londonderry, Antrim, Down, Armagh, collectively known as Northern Ireland - still are Brits, as they are still part of the sovereign state known as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
The UK in 2016
Ireland loved being part of the UK so much they f-cked off and went Republic and again said f-ck off and let you rot in WW2. Kinda like how you are European but refuse to be labelled European.
Most Irish people didn't want independence. They wanted Home Rule for Ireland within the UK.
It was only when British soldiers started shooting people at Gaelic football matches in about 1920 during the fight against Irish republicanism that Irish public opinion switched from Home Rule to actually seceding from the UK - and that happened in 1922, save for the northern bit.
There are quite a lot of Paddies who'd like the Republic of Ireland to rejoin the UK.
No, I'm not. I'm not European in the way that Europhiles and EU federalists would describe it.
You are sick .
Including Newfoundland .They were all Brits in 1916 when the sovereign state was the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, so they would have had no problem, the vast majority of them, being called Brits, because that's what they were: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland
The UK in 1916
And the people in the northern six counties - Fermanagh, Tyrone, Londonderry, Antrim, Down, Armagh, collectively known as Northern Ireland - still are Brits, as they are still part of the sovereign state known as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
The UK in 2016