Anyway ... subject to comment from Noir, it's my understanding that the majority of Northern Irelanders are perfectly happy to be British.
The real problem out there (apart from religious factionalism) was the terrorism visited upon that country by the IRA and its offshoots.
In case you and Noir are at all interested, though I'm living in Wales these days, I'm English ... a Londoner born and bred (Edmonton, north London .. the place the Canadian city is named after ..).