Of course, the writers are duplicitous idiots. A Negro in Ireland is no more Irish than an Irishman in China is Chinese. The nation-states of Europe aren't clubs like the U.S. and Canada...you can become American by planting your rump in the U.S. and getting a membership card, but unless your parents are racially White and ethnically Irish, you're can't be Irish.  The correct thing to say would be newly arrived (pick one: residents / citizens / freeloaders / destroyers) of Ireland. Unless you are racially White you can't be American either! Only White people are real Americans.