Despite the Peace Agreement, violence arose in the street of Belfast in 2005. Beyond the political relationship and organization between Northern Ireland and the Great Britain, the perception about national identities seems to be particularly significant when British population is asked about the situation of North Ireland. According to a Guardian poll made in August 2001, 41 per cent of Britons thinks that Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland should form an united and independent country (Storry and Child, 2007: 41). It is quite surprising that two fifth of the population think that part of their country should be separated. Padraig Reidy, in his article What the Irish Post did for Irisgness, says that Irish people identify themselves with "pictures of ringleted Irish dancers, victorious club hurdlers and Gaelic footballers, and scribbed-up young nurses on nights out in Cricklewood". (Padraig Reidy, 2011). .
These symbols contrast with those pointed out by David Blunkett as icon of Englishness. Vron Ware explains this clash of national identities when he writes that it has always been difficult for British people to achieve an agreement about what song can be called 'popular', because Welsh, Scottish and Irish people can make different election from a different cultural background (Ware, 2007: 146). Without taking into account modern mass culture, we can assure that nowadays this agreement must be impossible if we think in the many different cultural backgrounds that compose modern Britain. .
Some attempts have been done to solve this problem; some of them with the aim of including foreign cultures in the perception and definition of Britishness as a way to solve identity differences. David Blunkett's speech to the Institute for Public Policy Research on March 2005 point out to this direction. He understands the role that England have had as an occupying force in foreign countries and that "the advocacy of Britishness may be seen as threatening or offensive to a minority community" (Jonathan W.