And now one more thing, and I'll leave it to rest. The following link is to the British government's Commission on Racial Equality Adobe site. It is a report on anti-Irish prejudice and bigotry in Britain:

http://www.cre.gov.uk/pdfs/irinbrit.pdf

People will, of course, likely already have their minds made up about this. But it apparently still bears repeating: the Irish have largely been treated much worse by the British than the other way around, and that certainly continues to be the case in Britain, as this study found. It would be quite unrealistic to say that those prejudices and bigotries are not an issue in this discussion.