West Briton

West Briton
   Irish
   an Anglicized Irishman
   Often Protestant, educated in England, and affecting the speech and manners of the British professional classes. Used derogatively by some other Irish people:
    Those on the other side, he said, were mere 'West Britons'. (Kee, 1993 — this was rather rich coming from C. S. Parnell, a Protestant cricket-lover educated at Cambridge who spoke with a British upper-class accent)
   Whence the obsolete West Britonism, the policy of advocating the continuation of the union with Great Britain:
    The O'Conor Don is a sample of West Britonism in Ireland — he is a sample of the rights of England and Englishmen to rule Ireland, (ibid.)
   And the adjectival West British:
    After a short time the paper's policy could no longer with any justice be called 'West British'. (Fleming, 1965, of the Irish Times, which maintained a Unionist stance for some time after the creation of the Irish Free State)

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