How do the Irish feel having northern Ireland being a different country from them?

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LovelyLo

As an Irish person I am eternally grateful to the men and women who fought for my freedom, I wonâ€™t believe they died for nothing; Ireland will be united once again.
When I go to Belfast I see it as no different to going to Cork, Galway or Dublin, I'm on home soil considering my ancestors were from counties in all the provinces.
If the British love England so much and want to be a part of it they can move, and finally leave us Irish in peace.

stevie

It's a complicated situation... at the time most Irish people wanted to keep the country together and thought that it would be a temporary situation but that is all a long time ago although emotions still run high in some parts over the situation.
I think at this stage it is a decision for the people of the North regardless of what the rest of us think. Personally i would consider people from the North as Irish and not British but I know not all people from the North think of themselves as Irish

zzz311

Northerners have the best of both worlds, they're british and irish whether they like it or not. Before Irish independence britain owned the whole country, ireland let them have the north because it was better to get 26 counties at the time than to have to wait to get the last 6, and most of the north aren't too bothered about that these days

myprecious

According to the Friday Agreement anyone living on the island of Ireland is entitled to call themselves Irish, It is an unfortunate history, I am angry about things in the past and of course would love a future with a united Ireland
However peace and ceasefire at the moment is more important, and in my mind we are one country.

Orla C

We're kind of used it now, it's been this way for almost 90 years .... they are a very different region, regardless of the political situation. Northern Ireland in feel is neither British nor Irish, but has much of both.
No, I'm not angry at them, but I do get very pissed off at people asking awkward questions and attempting to stir up trouble about something that is very complicated and goes back many generations.

Courtney B

Don't really care either way.
The Irish look at people from Northern Ireland as "dos people from da Nort". Some people in Dublin, especially, can be quite cheeky to Northerners. As a studnet some taxi drivers used to run around town, until they found out we actually lived in Dublin. Before the whole 'discrimination' in pub entry thing, we were actually refused entry in nightclubs. Sorry, no northerners, lol. The Northern accent came in handy to scare people though. The English people think of people from Northern Ireland as "Irish." In London, people are quite cheeky and condescending. One question I heard in London "Do they have mobiles in Ireland?" That was not a joke.
So, in sum, Northern Ireland is its own entity. I guess Ireland is glad not to have Northern Ireland, lol.

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