Thank you! Its amazing how many Irish Americans WANT their ancestral homeland to be poor and superstitious. You don’t see me mythologizing Jagiellonian Poland or the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies under the Bourbons.
It's much more picturesque that way.
One of the most hilarious but common comments from the usual Irish-American making the pilgrimage to the motherland is that Ireland is "too built up" and "modern" now.
This from Americans living in Hovnanian homes that were put up 10 years ago on land that used to be farms in second-ring NJ and NY suburbs.
You don’t see me mythologizing Jagiellonian Poland or the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies under the Bourbons.
Hop to it. I'm sure you could do a profitable business running a tchotchke shop to sell glassware and sweaters at a 300% markup to deracinated Italo-Poles.