unindustrious, envious, superstitious, victimhooding, reactionaries
Literally this island was a clan ridden shithole before the English came, and even then, most of it remained a clan ridden shit hole.
The best thing the British ever did for this island was bring education and Empire.
While most of this island was moaning about their fucking religion, those of us with brains and vision set about making something of Ireland and seeking opportunity in the Empire, and these people then became the Anglo Irish to distinguish themselves from the hordes of near savages that held the Priest as their gods and petty nationalism their creed as they toiled for subsistence from the potted soil.
But slowly and surely these massed began to slowly adopt the trappings of civilised life, they moved to towns and took up urban employment, became literate off the benefit of British civilisation.
But still they held to their fucking church and their fucking nationalism
And in an act of extreme folly, they waged a war on their British benefactors, tore the island in two, got their much craved for independence, sank into 50 years of economic stagnation, then gave their country away to the church, and when the Church decline, they then gave it away to the EU
Believe me, the Irish have always been a disappointment, before and after globalism. They started to shape up under imperialism, but they pissed that away
This goes for the North and the South, both are fucking idiots who reverted to distorted and deformed identities and ethos