Also, I have, by far, the very best avatar! War Album! I'm Irish. My kin are all from Derry where the Troubles started. F the English!
My late grandfather was from County Wexford. Original IRA...or so he claimed. He condemned the organization's later terror tactics and said in his day they never targeted civilians.
He immigrated to New York City in the 1920s. We loved to visit there when we were kids. Grampa told us stories of banshees and the headless horseman...and it scared the ever loving **** out of us.
Every night he knocked back two shots of Irish whiskey -- his "medicine" -- and at bedtime walked through every room of the house sprinkling holy water. He was an Irishman right out of central casting.
It's funny, I married a woman of purebred English descent but all my six kids were fiercely pro-Irish, which their Mom wryly tolerated...though it did get on her nerves at times.
As far as F'ing the English, there's no need. They've F'd themselves by basically giving over their country to an invading horde of immigrants -- I think London is now only half native English -- who have no respect or regard for English history, traditions, culture...all the things that made the island nation a global power for centuries.
Then again, the Irish have done some version of the same thing so they're not in a good position to taunt their one-time persecutors.