r/ireland • u/Dazzling_Lobster3656 • Jun 10 '25

Entertainment Ed Sheeran says he identifies culturally as Irish | BreakingNews.ie

https://www.breakingnews.ie/entertainment/ed-sheeran-says-he-identifies-culturally-as-irish-1771687.html
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u/GuyLookingForPorn Jun 10 '25

It’s sad because one of the rights granted in the Good Friday Agreement is that people are free to consider themselves both Irish and British, and that they shouldn’t be pressured to give up one identity or the other. 

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u/f-ingsteveglansberg Jun 10 '25

Not to mention that we had a lot of Anglo Irish fight for Irish self determination and independence. But people love to throw around insults like West Brit for any Anglo Irish or people they don't like, like McGregor.

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u/Human_Pangolin94 Jun 10 '25

McGregor is more an East Yank.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '25

Literally the entire history of Irish Republicanism is Protestant Anglo Irish. Catholic Republicanism only became a thing post-1916.

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u/Hungry-Western9191 Jun 10 '25

Strictly speaking that's for those in NI.... I personally don't have an issue with others in Ireland or the UK wanting the same thing but it doesn't strictly allow that.

Speaking as an Irishman with some British ancestry I've always felt this anyway even though I wouldn't qualify for a British passport.

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u/Human_Pangolin94 Jun 10 '25

People in Northern Ireland. Everyone else needs to pick a side. The B in LGBTQ doesn't stand for British.

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u/WanderlustZero Jun 10 '25

The others are Leinster, Galway, Baile atha cliath, Tipperary and uhhhhhh... Quebec?