My mother was born in County Wexford in 1917 so I can claim some Irish blood. Although she lived in England from 1933 until her death last year at the age of 91 she was forever a loyal daughter of the Emerald Isle. She was always ambivalent about her de facto Britishness and always considered herself to be Irish.
I think I know what she would say about this disgraceful attempt to coerce the Irish people to give their freedom away to the "European Union". Vote "NO" in October and stop the Lisbon Treaty being ratified.