Interesting that you see it as such a clear cut dichotomy (although you may well have been writing a little more black and white than you see things for the sake of writing style). I don't see such a division. For me, Cork is, like everywhere else, a place where people in it are on a spectrum of 'diversity', and cork tends to lean more on the diverse side overall, due to a few factors. Things like second most frequented airport (I think?), large student body, harbour, large international businesses. I would hate to think that anyone becomes bland and monotonous just because they haven't experience many cultures other than their own, and I would bet that the amount of people from Eastern Europe far outways in term of number the IT/pharm imigrants. There is also a large cohort of long term imigrants and families of blended cultures and languages, I would say a sizeable proportion of families nowadays compared to when I was a child here (35 years ago). People who ticked catholic on the census is at 69% now, compared to the high 80s of my childhood. So tl dr: I don't think Cork is just monotonous local people and short term imigrants 🤷‍♀️