Don't think so. My family were Dolans from Dublin crossed with Travers - a Gypsy Family from somewhere up country in Ireland. I can't recollect anyone dancing jigs round the breakfast table or getting out the pipes for a few slow airs before bedtime.

No one ever went to Ireland, evinced an interest in going back there, checked on the hurling scores, dropped the occasional 'begorra' into the conversation.

I think we became English.