An acceptance of the fact that we in Northern Ireland have shared an experience…
I have discovered that I share something in common with Eamonn McCann, Snow Patrol’s Gary Lightbody and local writer Glenn Patterson. That something is a Northern Irish identity. While writing this article I have come to realise how differently people from this part of Ireland (the North, NI, as you wish) view their identity. You often hear people saying “Look you’re Irish. You live on the island of Ireland.” I do not deny my Irishness but this view is simplistic. …