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Thing is about the Irish is that they are stubbornly retro. and have their own way of doing things. Gaelic football and hurling still occupy most of the sports pages, traditional music and dance is mainstream.

The bad part of all that historically is that it extended to warfare and weapons. This is a representation of an Iron Age Irishman (500 BC??) at a cultural center.



The thing is, 2,000 years later the conquering English Armies under Elizabeth would run into basically the exact same guy. Same thing in the next century under Cromwell. And skipping backwards a few centuries before Cromwell, we've all seen this guy as an extra in Braveheart.

Speaking of Elizabeth, Ireland is full of ruined churches. Fer example I was given to understand Elizabeth had this one built, but that the next Century the Prods under Cromwell burned it and knocked it down.




Point of interest; according to the museum staff, the very first Irishman killed with a firearm was shot within sight of that church in the early 1600's by an Englishman. The staff had it that the Irish preferred to fight with blades.