Thanks Pip for explaining what I mean far better than I could manage myself.

WAV you said 'Perhaps an Irish reader or two may post on how those returning from America or Aus., e.g., to the "Celtic Tiger" might be treated if they made similar efforts to these (from above)...'

If you went around putting on a fake 'oirish' accent I know exactly what they would think of you. Pretty much what most of us think of you now.

As Pip clarified I say you are pretending to be English because you're not interested in discovering what England or being English is really about, just in living out your deluded fantasy and using it as the basis for the prejudicial treatment of others.