So, that makes me hardly Irish at all since I feel like my Italian mother had everything to do with my upbringing regarding heritage.
I find the Irish fascinating and wonderful. I don't think they are simplistic at all. I think they are rich with imagination and filled with wonder for nature and beauty. I think they are a fierce and loyal people with tender hearts.
That is how I view them. I'd like to be like the Irish. They are cool. Okay, Okay, he's really Scottish, but that's close enough. (kill me)
Us Irish-descended types are so complex even we dont understand ourselves.
I'm about 90% Irish, the rest being Canuck, Australian aborigine and indeterminate (one great-great-great-grandfather called himself "John Smith", 'nuff said).