The Guinness. That effortless warmth. ‘The Craic’. A nation of poets and storytellers, irreverent but fundamentally decent.
A people whose chief role in international affairs today is the occasional extraction of cash from credulous Americans by convincing them their great-grandmother was from Cork.
That’s the Irish for you – at least according to benevolent stereotype.
Except now the image of modern Ireland is of a nation that is sanctimonious, angry, obsessed with its historical victimhood and addicted to lecturing everybody else on their behaviour.
On Sunday night, Ireland’s footballers played Israel in a Nations League match in Hungary. Before kick-off, the Irish players wore
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