Thanks, Mick - Nice to get the view of someone from across the pond as well. It is just the point I was making. No-one in my extended family or group of friends are anti-Irish. Apart from the odd comments I have seen on here on Mudcat by what I believe to be a tiny minority of people (Including the odd American btw) I have never come across anyone who is particulary anti-Irish. I admit I do know people who are anti everything and everybody not British, including the Irish, but in my mind that makes them generic racists and NOT specificaly anti-Irish.

I still think the statement is unfounded and would like to see some evidence before I even begin to consider it vaguely factual. As I have said before I will accept that there is anti-Irish feeling in Britain. I will just not accept that the 'average Brit' is any more anti-Irish than the average human being.

On the English/British thing again. If the British are anti-Irish but the English are not are we saying that the anti-Irish feelings run higher in Scotland and Wales? ;-)

Cheers

DtG