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>so are Irish actually English/British today?
No, because the Insular Celts have been around in this part of Europe for far longer than the Germanics, and as long as the Irish language still exists this represents the basis of the Irish Nation (along with a shared genetic, culture and community).
This is also the basis of Welsh Nationhood, the concept of a "shared British heritage" is about as nonsensical as the concept of a "shared Hispaniola heritage" between the people of Haiti and the Dominican Republic (Sri Lanka, Papua, etc.). The very concept of "Britishness" is based on Germanic expansionism into historic Celtic territory and is inherently chauvinistic.
The reason why you share a Nation with Serbs and Bosniaks is the same reason Czechs share a Nation with Slovakians - linguists almost use the term Czechoslovakian (ie: they are mutually intelligible). Again, genetic testing has shown that they have the exact same origin, ergo they comprise a singular Nation and should have a Unified State.
Tito would have been far better off if he simply granted independence to the Slovenians (the only Internal Republics within the Federation which had properly drawn-up borders), handed Kosovo over to Hoxha, given Macedonia to Bulgaria (which he strongly considered back in 1947), handed some of Vojvodina to Hungary (but not all), and had a stable, smaller Yugoslavia that would actually outlive him.
>A nation is a historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life, and psychological make-up manifested in a common culture.