Not many people share that opinion though, sadly. People just see the 'British' as exclusively the upper class of the English and don't want to be associated with it, despite those people having no real connection in any cultural sense to anybody but themselves.
If Irish people don't want to be associated with us in any way due to those people then that makes me pretty sad, just goes to show how that upper class really did succeed in dividing us all, and continue to do it to this day.