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"After a few months in the US, Britain, Australia or anywhere else in the world. Protestants who called themselves British or even "Northern Irish" will begin to call themselves Irish. For their sense of homesickness and connection with Ireland.
Today there are many people who call themselves "anti-sectarian" and "Northern Irish". Despite not knowing that they are indeed talking about. For if they read Irish history they will know there have been dozens of Irish Republican and Nationalist Protestants. Including the founder of Irish Republicanism - Theobald Wolfe Tone. From Irish Nationalists leaders like Charles Steward Parnell, to Irish Republican leaders such as Ronnie Bunting, son of a Paisleyite and British Army Major who became leader of the INLA and was assassinated by the SAS in collusion with the UDA. Others like John Mitchel, Henry Joy McCracken.
However some Protestants who accept that the Loyalist culture is one full of hate and want to get away from it, an are unfortunately uneducated on the matter will often describe themselves as "Northern Irish". However there is no such thing as being "Northern Irish". You can only be either British or Irish. Away from the hate filled streets of the Shankill and other Loyalist area's a group of young Protestants finally accept that they are Irish.
Irish Republicanism offers a real soulation to the problem if sectarianism in Ireland. For Wolfe Tone himself said: "...my goal was to unite Catholic, Protestant and dissenter."
In poll after poll done on the British mainland, poll after poll proves the vast majority of Britons want a united Ireland and view all Irish people as one. The only people preventing his, is Unionists and Loyalists along with the British government"
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