You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987.
Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
I'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identity.
The land of Ireland for the people of Ireland.
Being Irish means you belong to the clan. It's what you feel. They feel Irish.
I'm first and foremost an Irishman, by birth, by nature, by soul, but an American citizen through and through as well.
Making an Irishness to be proud of in a real Republic. It is the vision of a real Republic where life and language, where ideals and experience have the ring of authenticity which we need now as we go forward.
The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese.
I have a British and an American passport.