Irish or British?

Question

If you are/were from Belfast or anywhere else in Northeren Ireland. Would you class yourself as Irish or British?

Answer 1

I suppose you could call them Irish

Answer 2

technically northern Ireland is part of the united kingdom of great britain and northern Ireland (look at front of passport),but i would say it is all up to personnel choice,most ppl don't classify themselves as British but English,Scottish,welsh or Irish

Answer 3

my mothers from Northern ireland. according to the british Goverment she is British, according to the irish Goverment she Irish, but she has a british passport as its the cheapest .

my aunts / uncles in northern ireland, class themselves as Irish

Answer 4

let me settle this for you plain and simple..

firstly..the united kingdom and great britain are the same thing

there are 2 main religions in northern Ireland, catholic and protestant..

catholics are nationalist/republican and see themselves as Irish

protestants are loyalist and see themselves as british

many Irish people in the republic ( where i'm from) take it as a big insult when people call us british, because we live on an island which the british call the 'british isles' many resent this

it is much the same as people in new zealand taking offence at being mistaken as australian or Canadians being mistaken as being american

so at the end of the day, your religion or upbringing will decide whether you class yourself as Irish or British

Answer 5

I think the answer to that is that we are politically correct and very careful when it comes to NI, and let people decide which they are. It's something of a gray area.

Answer 6

People born in Northern Ireland are Irish but they are under British Rule.

Answer 7

it depends on the different places in northern ireland.......some want to be classified as irish and some want to be classified as english!

it just depends on where they are living!!

well im from donegal so we miss the hassle of that!!!

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Answer 8

Irish!!!

Answer 9

You would Class yourself as unfortunate if you are and Lucky if you were....And be dammed glad you are out of the shithole

And if you ask the same question in 2 years...,Then you can call yourself POLISH

Answer 10

Ta me ina chonai i contae Chill Mhantain and the majority of people living in Northern Eire are Prodestants but Ireland is Ireland And will always be. The Irish Government ploughed 800 million Euro into the development of nortern roads so we are not totally seperated any more

Answer 11

british of course

but they are really scottish who settled there  about 400 years ago pick me best answer

Answer 12

I'm from Scotland & class  myself as Scottish.

I  think it's up to the individual to decide for themselves what they want to be classed as.

If it was me I'd pick Irish.

Answer 13

im from england and as far as i know northern ireland is part G.B, so technically the people over there are classed as british, i think they want to be classed as british apposed to irish. maybe its a personal question in the sense that there might some people from the same area who call themselves irish and others call themselves british.

Answer 14

All nationalism is just a ruse to keep you peasants fighting amongst yourselves so that we rich guys can sit on our yachts and laugh at you.

Answer 15

im from dublin, and i know many ppl from northern ireland,some consider themselves irish some english, so i just let them decide, its their own personal choice

so basically it depends on the person and the situation what u considier northern ireland to be

Answer 16

They are Irish from Northern Ireland...

Answer 17

Well, even if one wants to, you can't be British if you're from Northern Ireland. The island's name is Ireland so technically, everyone born on the island is Irish.

Unionists of course hate this logic, so the only other thing they can be is United Kingdomish - but British? No, that's impossible  because Britain is the other island, to the east of Ireland.

Answer 18

why dont you accept what your passport says or else change it to a British if thats what you want - I lived in N.I nearly all my life  and considered myself British until I applied for a British passport and was refused as I was born in Dublin - lived there for 3 months and moved North - I was told i had to have an Irish passport first before they would change it - im now proud to be Irish

Answer 19

Who cares now. They are both Irish first and then British. People  will not agree with me. Until the country unites they will be British then after Irish.

Good Luck to both sides...war is over!!

Answer 20

i'm from belfast and i am 100 percent irish the word british is foreign to me if called it i would consider it an insult. british people are a different race country and culture to true irish.

Answer 21

Northern Ireland is classed as part of Britain what do you think all the trouble was  about , so thay are classed as British and not Irish thay have British passports and use sterling money , its southern Ireland that has euro and Irish passports. I think it should  be handed back really how do you class something as British when there is water separating the two .

EDIT- technically it don't matter weather it belongs to British or united kingdom it should belong to Ireland ,

Answer 22

Only British, because they have kindful like as Indian.

Answer 23

while some regard themselves as irish some regard themselves as british. we southerners regard them all as irish as they share our island, not the island of great britain.

Answer 24

Okay, first of all, I'm not from Northern Ireland, but many of my friends are from Derry, and I've done extensive studies on the paramilitary murals in the six counties.

I'm confused as to why so many people on here are insisting that Protestant Unionists from Northern Ireland consider themselves British.  In my experience, that is completely wrong.  Protestant Unionists consider themselves part of the United Kingdom (which, LEGALLY, they are) and part of Ulster, which is the northern region of Ireland.  But they would call themselves "Orange" before "British," (even though Orange technically comes from Dutch) as a way to identify with William of Orange.  Now, William of Orange was both Dutch and English and was fighting AGAINST James II, who was English through and through, but Catholic.  

I know that makes things more confusing, but it boils down to this: in my experience, people identify as "Northern Irish," or "Orange" if they're Protestant Unionists, and "Irish" if they're Catholic Nationalists, because Nationalists do not recognize the existence of "Northern Ireland" as a separate political entity.  They feel the entire island is Ireland, and that's the end of it.

Bottom line answer: If what you really want is a head count, I would repost this question in "polls and surveys," and tell people you would prefer straight, one word answers, only from people who live in the political region known as Northern Ireland.

Answer 25

Human.

Answer 26

It's entirely up to your own personal opinions/beleifs/political feelings.

Personally, since N.Ireland isn't part of Great Britain but rather part of the UK, I'd not classify myself as British, but a British Citizen or a British subject. However, I don't classify myself as Irish either seeing how I do not belong to the Irish Republic.

In an ideal world, Northern Irish would be accepted as a nationality. Funnily enough, when you ask teh nationality of a pesron in England, they're English, Scotland -> Scottish, Wales -> Welsh, so very few peopel actually classify themselves as 'British'.

I stick with Northern Irish, best of both worlds.

Answer 27

100% Irish

Answer 28

I realise this isn't quite what you asked - I come from Scotland - I love my country, so I see myself as Scottish first then British and then maybe European...