Yes. I'd definitely say that people here see a distinct ethnic difference there. If you look at "british" as a shared ethnicity, and view people in britain (not great britain, just britain IE the main island) as having two ethnicities (minor/greater), you can start to see why it wasn't necessary for any one single ethnicity here to wipe out the others in order to create the larger polity that exists.
Great Britain is the name of the largest island, hence 'the united kingdom of great Britain and Northern Island'.
If Irish is a separate ethnicity as it has a state but welsh is not despite sharing a common cultural history and being subject to much of the same processes of assimilation then the definition becomes tautological.
Are the English and Irish separate ethnicities by your schema then?
Yes. I'd definitely say that people here see a distinct ethnic difference there. If you look at "british" as a shared ethnicity, and view people in britain (not great britain, just britain IE the main island) as having two ethnicities (minor/greater), you can start to see why it wasn't necessary for any one single ethnicity here to wipe out the others in order to create the larger polity that exists.
Great Britain is the name of the largest island, hence 'the united kingdom of great Britain and Northern Island'.
If Irish is a separate ethnicity as it has a state but welsh is not despite sharing a common cultural history and being subject to much of the same processes of assimilation then the definition becomes tautological.