fair enough I have noticed a trend where the Irish people I know seem to use British as an identity in opposition to any other identity as opposed to the more conventional view in the UK that it is a supplemental identity and someone can be comfortably Irish, Scottish, Welsh, or English and also British on top of that
You'd be hard pressed to find one that does. Irish people from Ireland are obviously not British. Republicans in Northern Ireland aren't going to consider themselves British either, maybe "under British Rule" or "British subjects".
The Northern Irish Loyalist might admit under stress they're "Irish" in a technical sense, but they're going to call themselves British first and foremost. People who don't care either way are more likely to self-identify as just "Northern Irish" with all the baggage that implies.
Yeah that's the difference in meaning in the rest of the UK British means from the British isles which is a geographic term the same way Cuba is Caribbean Ireland is British because it's part of the geographic region the British Isles
The Isle of man similarly isn't part of the UK but is British
fair enough I have noticed a trend where the Irish people I know seem to use British as an identity in opposition to any other identity as opposed to the more conventional view in the UK that it is a supplemental identity and someone can be comfortably Irish, Scottish, Welsh, or English and also British on top of that
You'd be hard pressed to find one that does. Irish people from Ireland are obviously not British. Republicans in Northern Ireland aren't going to consider themselves British either, maybe "under British Rule" or "British subjects".
The Northern Irish Loyalist might admit under stress they're "Irish" in a technical sense, but they're going to call themselves British first and foremost. People who don't care either way are more likely to self-identify as just "Northern Irish" with all the baggage that implies.
Yeah that's the difference in meaning in the rest of the UK British means from the British isles which is a geographic term the same way Cuba is Caribbean Ireland is British because it's part of the geographic region the British Isles
The Isle of man similarly isn't part of the UK but is British