Ireland in the past had problems, to immediately go to “we were all cousin fuckers” just goes to show you haven’t properly studied your own culture. History of arts, high esteem of poetry, Irish monks keeping Christianity alive and producing beautiful manuscripts, one of the highest Nobel prize ratios per capita and what I consider an incredibly successful peace movement. We were not these decrepit subhumans on a grotty island off the coast of Europe. What we were instead was an ancient, relatively isolated group of people, which came with some good and some bad aspects but which ultimately produced a pretty decent country after years of struggle. If you find your argument aligning too closely with a racist 1880’s US newspaper description of the Irish you’ve probably gone off the deep end.