I'm half Irish
It must be your bottom half that's Irish?.
Can you dance? ;)
the Irish have a habit of exaggerating the talents of their (mostly) mediocre artists-
This post was by a Polish man.
And i think you will find that Sinéad O'Connor is not liked for anything except her voice in Ireland i.e. she's a tit.
Ireland has a culture which rewards mediocrity-
As opposed to who? Your other half?
I disagree and I am not the only one.
Irish Nobel Prize Winners
1923 - for Literature William Butler Yeats
1925 - for Literature George Bernard Shaw
1969 - for Literature Samuel Beckett
1995 - for Literature Seamus Heaney
if you don't believe me then just look at our politicians.
Using "Politicians" as an example is just wrong, bullshite artists more like :)
I'm expecting flak over this but I think Joyce is overrated,
Actually many people share this opinion, he is a bone of contention between scholars in Ireland, is it genius or just a rant?.
But that is up to the individual I suppose.
But that's just my opinion.
That's fare enough but you seem to live in two different worlds?
Jumping from "The Irish" to "our" depending on which way you want your argument to go.