@emergenteffects@FistedFoucault Wolfe tone was a Protestant as well, what does that have to do with anything? Why do people lose their minds when it comes to Ireland and religion? An Irishman can only be Catholic? According to who?
The United States is the only country in the world whose head of state regularly goes on television and *trashes* the US population in a bid to demoralize them into accepting a foreign overseer class.
This Irish concept of a very severe, rigorists practice of Catholicism was the cause of alot of friction between themselves and the waves of Italian immigrants who flooded into America over a century ago. The Italians folksy and outwardly expressive form of practice created a lot of hostility on the part of the Irish bishops and clergy who dominated the Church in America and (thankfully) led to the creation of seperate Parishes so that Italians could practice their faith and traditions in peace.
Below are examples of this contrast taken from the book "La Stories: Five Centuries of the Italian American Experience"