The odd contrast being that millions of present day Americans really want to be Irish and will go out of their way to find their Irish roots, even if they have to spoof it. While another type of Irish, namely me and mine, want to be anything BUT Irish. Hence my new passport, permanent Finnish resident status, and they can keep the previous passport or else I'll use it for target practice.
One of the main reasons that the gombeen Irish scabs can't get a foothold up here is that this country is genuinely honest, open, has full transparency and accountability, and cute hoorism is treated for what it is: criminal behaviour. If I break some serious law, my host country will rightly hammer me: then likely deport me. If a rich Finn (who has more than enough already) does the same, he'll be fined and ran ragged in the media, his business shunned and his reputation destroyed. He won't be deported, but he'll likely have no fucking choice but to get the fuck out and start again somewhere else.
The Irish don't give a fuck either way: honesty and transparency confuses them, it upsets them.
it forces them to make choices and make the hard decisions: trust the honest guy in the lion's den or trust the Paddy with a dagger in his underpants?