Why do the English get more of a hard time than the British, in Ireland?

Question

The Irish love to give the English a hard time. The Irish had a field day beating the English and the English get blamed for everything over the British and as an Irishman I don't understand why. Yes I know my history, very well in fact, I majored in it, but don't get the nastiness towards just the English, when in fact Britain , USA, Spain, Ireland and France all played a part in our history.

Answer 1

Isn't it more a question of joy in "giant killing". Other examples of this are when Reading and then Middlesborough played Manchester United almost everybody in England who was not a Man Utd supporter was desperate for Reading and then Middlesborough to put Man Utd out. It was much the same when England beat the Aussies in last cricket ashes series in England. Similarly because England won the World Cup in rugby union, clearly the Irish far more enjoy humiliating England than they would enjoy humiliating Wales or Scotland, who have never performed so well at world level..

Answer 2

Who are the English and who are the British? The former are those born in England and the latter are those born in one of the United Kingdom countries. The English get a hard time than the British because Northern Ireland forcefully became part of the United Kingdom through England, a condition not accepted by the Irish who fight the English to reunite Ireland as one Irish country.

Answer 3

Its the old celtic connections that go back thousands of years that make the welsh,scots and irish kindred spirits.

Answer 4

English are british! Please tell me you knew that!