"but if they are saying something else, in some code that an American of Irish and English (and French and German) descent cannot understand, than please educate me"

Apologies, art, I thought you were talking in general (the 'than' got me...).

However "The question posed was not whether individuals who are Irish or who have Irish ancestry think that there is now or ever was anti-Irish bias."

Their stories are entirely relevant, however, art. Too long have the 'British' been policing themselves on issues such as these. If this thread gets people to examine that which they throw off the tongue without examination, I think we will have gotten somewhere.

Interesting story about the bees, Guest.
I know one about wasps

Graham.
The 'fairly scientific' study was simply pulling up all the Irish threads and reading them.
Yes, we did that.
'Anonymous' guests still are posters in my eyes, despite what the general concensus among mudcatters is concerned.
'Trolls' in such circumstances still show an anti-Irish Bias, and may well be members, as you can I'm sure apprecxiated.
I do not disregard their post, just because they don't identify themselves.

What I have seen here on this thread and the 'Get Loyalist weapons' thread is a handful of people who do feel that the Nationalist Community in the Sick Counties have been given the short end of the stick over the years, and who do distance themselves from the actions their Governments have taken over this time.

I realise that this particular thread could just turn into a talking shop, where everybody agrees that those who post to it are free of any bias, and then we all go off to get on with our day.

I know that people aren't going to come in here and say "Yes, count me in with the Anti-Irish, please...."

We want to DISCUSS my contention.
We want to EXPLORE why the term 'British' is relevant to some people's sense of belonging.

We want to hear what IRISH people have experienced.

Because while NOBODY I KNOW hates the 'English', 'Scots' or the 'Welsh' (in the context of hating someone because of their place of birth), MOST PEOPLE I KNOW hate the 'British'

Why is that?