Here is a selection of your responses reflecting on your relationship with Britain as part of the ‘Irish Times’ series Neighbours.

Second-generation Irish grow up with such a mixed sense of nationality and identity

Ireland in 1990 was a monochrome, insular society, though you could sense a desire for change

The longer I spend here the harder it will be to slip back into once-familiar ways. That scares me.

The English didn’t break Irish women’s spirit. Ireland does that all by itself, writes Anthea McTeirnan, in our series on the relationship between Ireland and Britain

Is our nationality defined by where we were born? Or is it to do with how we feel?

It is clear Ireland and Britain are totally different – except for our language, food, books, education, legal systems, humour and weather

On this occasion the English have changed the question

For people my age Northern Ireland really was as British as Finchley

Irish Embassy in London yet to receive any complaints of harassment of Irish nationals

An Irish Times series explores Ireland’s relationship with its bigger, more powerful neighbour, our changing levels of enmity and amity and the small – yet vast – differences that define the two countries

When I’m home for visits, I sometimes feel like an outsider with ‘notions’

West Cork is home to the greatest concentration of British people living in Ireland. What do they think of Ireland – and Brexit?

The English journalist and naturalist – this paper’s longest-serving columnist – has always been a keen-eyed yet sympathetic chronicler of Irish life. So what does he make of our nation in this centenary year?