Posted: Wed Sep 7, 2022 10:20am
Isn't it a given that they are both part of England and considered English.
After all, when and Irish citizen, examples here is a selective list of Irish figures claimed as British by media in recent times.
Saoirse Ronan
Sky News reporter Richard Suchet called Saoirse Ronan “one of our own” when she received a BAFTA nomination for her performance in Brooklyn.
London Film Critics Circle (LFCC) nominated Saorise Ronan for Best British Actress.
Seamus Heaney
Heaney was famously included in The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry. He responded to his “complimentary” inclusion like this:
Be advised my passport's green.
No glass of ours was ever raised to toast the Queen.
Michael Fassbender, Colin Farrell & Brendan Gleeson
The London Film Critics Circle (LFCC) also nominated Fassbender, Farrell and Gleeson in their “British” categories. After the instant protests the LFCC reluctantly relabeled those categories as “British and Irish.”
Emma Donoghue
The novelist and screenplay writer was nominated in the Breakthrough British Filmmaker of the Year category for "Room"
Chris O Dowd
In 2001 during a red-carpet interview for the BIFA Awards, Chris O’Dowd was referred to as a British Actor:
Coming from being a British actor and working on something like Bridesmaids.
Irish actor, yep.
Irish actor, I apologise.
Conor McGregor
During a pre - Aldo fight interview, UFC president Dana White referred to McGregor as being from the UK.
All of Brazil will be watching him defend his title [points to Jose Aldo], all of the UK will be watching (points to Conor McGregor).
Ireland will be watching.
Ireland, Ireland. I thought that was the same thing, apparently not.
It is most certainly not.
Cillian Murphy
Cillian Murphy during an Interview for Inception
You both are British…
No, I’m Irish.
Yeah I know, British.
No, no, no, I’m Irish.
Oh, sorry.
Ruth Negga
Negga was called a "British Rising Star" by Telegraph and Evening standard for her role in "Loving"
Golfer Paul Dunne
BBC commentator Eddie Pepperell labelled him as British during the British Open recently
Domhnall Gleeson
GQ, The Guardian, the Evening Standard and the Daily Mail have all praised his performance in a Burberry Advert referring to him as a British Actor.
What makes me laugh is the amount of English people I meet here is when they ask where I am from I tell them Dublin 75% of the time they ask is that North or South.
So, if you are Scottish or Welsh, I apologize for my including you in the comment.