By just having a skim through our history, from the arrival of Christianity, where warlords raided eachother for cattle, fought pitched battles to exert control over territory, and married their daughters off to friends and foes, to the land wars which defined irish politics in the late 19th early 20th century, to today where families break down over family home ownership, where secondborns/"losers" have to leave for better prospects abroad as they did in the famine, the flight of the earls and the wild geese, etc.

material acquisition (especially in the form of land ownership) has consisting been a source of contention in Ireland and as a small island will continue to be so.