You might have a misconcpet that American Irish know nothing about Ireland and are offended when Irish tell them they are not Irish, but I am a strange case, and American Irish who knows too much about Ireland and is ashamed of his heritage. Someone who delights in being different than Irish
The Irish and the Jews are both survivors of some of the most terrible crimes of the last 200 years. But the Irish only survived, the crawled into the present with their boy raping priests, their depression and their bottle. The Jews, who got in much worse, on the other hand thrieved.
The Irish have won 12 nobel prizes, only 2 in siences (1 was Austrian when he won it). Sure we can talk a good talk and tell a good story and have. The Jews have won 216 nobel prizes, despite only being only about 250% the popiulation, even more in Literature.
2 persecuted people get to come to America. One produces 12 prizes in Ireland and 2 in America, the other persecuted people, who were much more hated and more killed, despite not speaking English when they came to America, the Jews have won 22% of the nobel prizes in the world
This is not genetics its culture, the Jews have culture of learning, of families sticking together, of total dedication to family and the value of wives and he wives duties towards husbands. Irish sadly have a long history of excuses, of blaming others, of broken families and drinking