Irish, not British
A letter from Alison Hackett:
When in France, we English-speaking Irish have the problem that people mostly assume our nationality is British. I now always get it in, early on in the conversation, that we are not. (Sorry, but the thought of the French thinking we are not good Europeans is almost unbearable).
Alison Hackett, Poet/Publisher, Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin