but that british isles british equation is precisely the only conclusion to this article if i live in derry i am a derryman if i live in ireland i am irish in europe i am european if people accept the insistence of british nationalists that ireland is in an entity they are calling the british isles the only logical conclusion is that i am british that's not going to happen it is illogical to say i am not british if you say i am in the entity you are naming the british isles ps i accept the 'beyond the pale comment with the greatest pride and would believe my get your grubby hands off my country's name attitude to this article is part of the finest historical tradition of all a tradition from the glens of wicklow in to cath ch im an fhia in to the bogside in which i am speechless with pride about the british will never take my irishness and impose the shame of their name on me