• YOUR correspondent Róisín Ní Ċurráin urges second and third generation Irish to record themselves as Irish in the 2021 census even if they have been born in Britain, (The Irish have not achieved equality in Britain, March 12).

My parents were born in Ireland. I was born here but I’ll be blowed if I’m going to put myself down as Irish. England has provided me with a home, an education and a job.

With due respect to Ireland, it has done nothing for me. And don’t forget that people like my parents, who were born in Ireland before 1922, were actually born British.

PATRICK CHRISTOPHER BURKE
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