Originally Posted by Trollheart

And the stock answer is: seven hundred years of oppression.
Plus Irish people are more fun, less stuck up than English, and don't give two ****s about the Queen.

Seriously: you go abroad, people say "Oh you're English?" with a kind of bored expression, you say "No, Irish" and suddenly they're all smiles. True story.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.