That’s because Irish nationalism is inward looking, backward looking, and very very selfish.
The Irish must be doing something right these days.
I know a number of Irish immigrants, mostly legal, though not all.
Quite a few have returned to Ireland where they see better future financial prospects than here in the States. These are all educated folks, people working in tech and financial services.
It’s much more complicated than that. We tend to forget that the British Empire was not a benign affair committed to the spread of human rights and democracy (sure it was better than the French).
The Irish have a long and bloody history under British rule. There was the Potato famine and the Irish War of Independence (1919 - 1921).
Let us not forget that it was the Americans that forced the British and French to promote human rights and democracy outside their home countries (they didn’t do it willingly).
That’s a load, dude. They live in a place where the best they can do is grow sheep (here I’m talking history) and brew a bit other than that it was pretty damn stark.
Meanwhile, they were sitting next door to the British, (you know, the benevolent British, we loved them so very much we positively fell at their feet)...
Go here and read about the famine. And before I end my smack down, I want to express my opinion that your comment is just as racist as if I said all black Americans were niggers. (which they are most certainly not, and I beg their forgiveness)
http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/famine/coffin.htm
If you don’t care to see the truth about British colonialism in Ireland exposed, you are free to counterargue, but why don’t you take your anti-Irish racism somewhere else?