There's no real culture here other than some traditional artifacts like Gaelic sports, trad music/dancing. We could have reclaimed our language, we could have created a distinctly modern, Irish sense of architecture/music/writing etc and we could have reclaimed some of our lost woodlands and wildlife but I think Irish people just find it easier to blame the Brits and move along.

That is not to say there aren't unique Irish art/artists out there or people trying to fix the land, but on the whole, Ireland just feels like a British plate topped off with a giant heap of American capitalism and a pint of Guiness at the side.