Can you think of some examples from your own experience, or of someone you know, where there was a clash of identity? What happened and can you see how fluctuating notions of identity are still potentially problematic? What does it mean for you, to be yourself?

Following the EU referendum in 2016 I spent six months feeling angry about the result and in order to do some practical to help me deal with my frustration I applied for an Irish passport. Since receiving it I use it in preference to my UK passport and whilst I do necessarily think of myself as Irish, I increasingly do not see myself as British. I feel that the county has changed, there has been an increase in racism and xenophobia, and those things that I associate with Britishness, tolerance, fair play, respect for the rule of law, appear to me to be in retreat. For me the problem associated with this fluctuating identity is not so much my degree of Irishness, I was born in Northern Ireland and lived there for a few years when I was young and so I qualified for citizenship through birth. Rather, my issue with identity is the increasing feeling of alienation in the country in which I have lived all my life and whose values have been shown to be superficial rather than deep-rooted.