The Irish Times

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.

Sat Sept 17 2016 - 06:00

Can the London-Irish really call themselves Irish?

Second-generation Irish grow up with such a mixed sense of nationality and identity

Fri Sept 16 2016 - 15:00

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

Fri Sept 16 2016 - 06:00

‘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.

Thu Sept 15 2016 - 16:46

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

Thu Sept 15 2016 - 06:00

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?

Wed Sept 14 2016 - 15:00

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

Wed Sept 14 2016 - 05:50

Neighbours: Ireland and Britain are forced into a changing relationship

On this occasion the English have changed the question

Wed Sept 14 2016 - 00:00

Newton Emerson: I do not feel Irish in the slightest

For people my age Northern Ireland really was as British as Finchley

Tue Sept 13 2016 - 01:00

Post-Brexit poll racism not extending to Irish in Britain

Irish Embassy in London yet to receive any complaints of harassment of Irish nationals

Mon Sept 12 2016 - 01:00

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

Sat Sept 10 2016 - 06:00

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’

Thu Sept 01 2016 - 15:00

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?

Sat Jul 30 2016 - 06:00

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?

Sat Mar 19 2016 - 05:45