They were “foreign invaders” with the blessing of Popes Adrian IV and Alexander III, who established English King Henry II as Lord of Ireland. And with the assistance of Leinster’s king Dermot Mac Murrough.
I would not say that EU elites, who accepted both the UK and Ireland into the EU in the same year, even regard the two as separate.
“I would not say that EU elites, who accepted both the UK and Ireland into the EU in the same year, even regard the two as separate.”
Every time they convert Euros into British pounds they have to regard them as separate.