I have no problem with the labelling or identifying with your ethnic origin, as long as it doesn't get in the way of things. I won't get too into that, because it would be political!

I consider myself Canadian first, Irish second. It's funny, when I returned to Ireland in my early twenties, I set forth to reclaim my lost heritage, the culture that my parents had chucked in the garbage, so to speak. When I got there I felt I was more Irish than Canadian. When I left I realised I was more Canadian (and by extension, North American) than Irish.