crooks

No true Irishman has ever considered himself a British subject.

De Jure of course (Englishmen's laws, not ours), but De facto, as in us feeling, or wanting to be like subjects, never (a Key difference between us and the Sellout Scots - we never were, or wanted to be, British).

I can claim my attractive neighbour is my subject - does that make it so?

That essentially defines the relationship your nation had with mine.

You attempted to force your laws and unions upon us, we NEVER accepted them, a point which after years of on-off bloodshed you finally acknowledged and left us alone - I for one am glad of it.

The only thing most Irish wish from Britain these days is for the North back, though these days we want it peacefully.

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'An neart de an tir, an gra den daonra agus an gloir de Eireann'.