evidence: About one in five people identify as "Northern Irish" and may well support parties like Alliance, who do not take a stance on reunification and made significant gains in elections this May. Kellie Armstrong, a representative of the Alliance party in the local legislature, told Al Jazeera that the census figures demonstrate that many people like her do not want to be "pigeonholed" as British or Irish. [...] While most people speak English, more people now speak Polish or Lithuanian than the indigenous languages, Irish or Ulster Scots.