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 ::Wouold they really call themselves Britons? Maybe, I don't know. Many of them certainly consider themselves British, so if Briton is considered a synonym for British then it might well apply. By the way, I think that ""To a Republican in Northern Ireland the Unionist Britons are foreign occupiers"" is an oversimplification at best; there may well be republicans who think like that, but most of them regarded only the British armed forces as foreign occupiers.  |  "