May I point out that Eric Bogle is a Scot-turned-Aussie and hence no longer British? Plus that his song is not anti-Irish, but anti shite music, which is accurately and wittily destroyed, as anyone who has groaned at the would be street-fightin' men who announces the 80th miserable version of the Fields of Athenry you've heard in the folk club in the last year.

As I said, I'm not anti-Irish, but rather anti-'Irish'. Bogle's song sums up the latter pretty well.