Are there many British in Ireland?

Affable

If so, how do they get on, what are their reasons for leaving?
Do you know many?

getz

Affable wrote: »

If so, how do they get on, what are their reasons for leaving?
Do you know many?

last year i did a little research on this subject, and i came up with a number of 600,000 british passport holders,most of my imfo came from www.reform.org the main reason that there are so many is because are children of irish people who have lived and worked and married in britain,also many older irish men and woman over the years took out a british passport when living in the UK because they would have had difficulty proving their irish background others just love ireland and the irish ,and retire there .i know that most[if not all] get on well,and feel irish themselves

sarad

I am british and lived in Dublin for 7 years. Loved it. Engaged to a northsider dub. only moved back to UK as dad was ill.

Affable

sarad wrote: »

I am british and lived in Dublin for 7 years. Loved it. Engaged to a northsider dub. only moved back to UK as dad was ill.

I have considered making that move. Could you elaborate on why you liked it?
Nicer people? More fun? More in line with your political ideals?

Or what?

mike65

CSO figures say there are about 130,000 UK citizens here.

KerranJast

I think they are the biggest non-Irish group in the country which all the "Dem Poles do be takin all de jobs Joe!" merchants tend to forget/ignore.

NickNolte

KerranJast wrote: »

I think they are the biggest non-Irish group in the country which all the "Dem Poles do be takin all de jobs Joe!" merchants tend to forget/ignore.

QFT.

Plus the 1.8 million people in Northern Ireland are British. Even if some of them don't see it that way. But we won't open that can of worms

mike65

Too late! :pac:

markopantelic

KerranJast wrote: »

I think they are the biggest non-Irish group in the country which all the "Dem Poles do be takin all de jobs Joe!" merchants tend to forget/ignore.

Yep but ah sure its different innit'?:rolleyes:

Coriolanus

Bunches, going from the amount of British customers I get.

Maybe it's an emigre thing, but it always seems that the proportion of "nice" foreigners is higher than that of natives. And yes, I've tried to correct for abnormalities in the sample size. ( Well. Thought hard about it at least . :P ))

Latchy

NickNolte wrote: »

QFT.

Plus the 1.8 million people in Northern Ireland are British. Even if some of them don't see it that way. But we won't open that can of worms

Oh Nowz ...:D

watty

If your parent or Grandparent or you was born anywhere in 32 counties before 1922, or if your parent or Grandparent or you was born in N.I after 1922, then you are British even though you never left the Island of Ireland and may have an Irish passport.

You can be British and Irish, in that sense.

Or does the OP refer to English, Welsh, Cornish (they don't think they are English), Scottish, Ch. Islanders, Gibratarians, people from Great Britain or British Passport holders that have or have not residency rights in UK.

What exactly do you mean by "British".
It used to be also said that only darker skinned people called themselves British. Even Loyalists abroad call themselves Irish and other people think of themselves more as English, Welsh, Scottish etc.

Ponster

Affable wrote: »

If so, how do they get on, what are their reasons for leaving?

Reasons for leaving and going specificly to Ireland as opposed to Spain for example?

Here are a couple of reasons :

England is a tiny country for the amount of people that live there. 400 people per sq. km. as compared to about 190 in Ireland. A lot of the country is very cramped compared to Ireland.


Some people leave because they find that the England they grew up in no longer exists and go to Ireland hoping to find something closer to the type of lifestyle they would like to live. France may have better weather but the language barrier can be too much for a lot to overcome, esp. retired couples.

I even know a couple who came over when Blair banned fox-hunting as they felt that their country was becoming too oppressive

watty

You can be arrested in UK for being too tall in possession of a camera at 5'11"

Hookey

Ponster wrote: »

Reasons for leaving and going specificly to Ireland as opposed to Spain for example?

Here are a couple of reasons :

England is a tiny country for the amount of people that live there. 400 people per sq. km. as compared to about 190 in Ireland. A lot of the country is very cramped compared to Ireland.

I was back in London after six months back in Ireland last weekend. Its a madhouse. The weak pound has turned an already crammed city into something like Manila or Bangkok; its absolutely rammed with tourists, worse than I ever experienced when I lived there.

Ponster wrote: »

I even know a couple who came over when Blair banned fox-hunting as they felt that their country was becoming too oppressive

The oppression part was certainly part of my reasoning when I decided to come back to Dublin. I never felt it all through the 90s and the last years of "The Troubles", but the police state has been on the rise ever since Labour came to power, and its getting worse. It doesn't help that they're incompetent secret policemen.

Affable

Hookey wrote: »

I was back in London after six months back in Ireland last weekend. Its a madhouse. The weak pound has turned an already crammed city into something like Manila or Bangkok; its absolutely rammed with tourists, worse than I ever experienced when I lived there.
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Yeah-I agree. It's barely got any local feel IMO. Unless you are way out of the middle.