As a teenager I was sometimes asked if I saw myself as being of Irish or English nationality. I would reply that I was Anglo-Irish and, if the person I was talking to asked no further questions about my national identity, I would leave it at that. But if they went on to inquire if that meant that I “was half English and half Irish,” I would politely say that it did not mean anything of the sort. More

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