Yes, and? I think that was part of the point. I don’t think that’s the totality of describing Irish, but as someone that has a bit of Irish heritage and interactions with Irish it’s a common characteristic.

It’s a remote island right, and I think the history makes the more recent transformation more impressive and interesting.

Reinforcing negative stereotypes is not beneficial to the Irish minority in England.

I think celebrating independence from eight centuries of British rule by having a civil war did that for us.