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| The banker from the film Calvary who personifies vulgar excess and the lingering ascendency in Ireland |
For the the outsider,
every one from Ireland is Irish, Green and Orange and every shade in between. (Except perhaps in the United States, as noted
here and
here.) The natives suffer from and indulge in
the vanity and narcissism of small differences. Irish people all have a notion of "the other". The person who is "the other" is the confessional and constitutional counterpart, the person in the house next door or in the adjoining community. I wrote
here about the bias and prejudgement that the protestants of Ireland experience.
