I'm Irish. I've spent a lot of time in the countryside and the cities. This is not true. It's very rare to find an Irish person who is racist towards the British
> secondary school "Up the Ra" was a common slogan shouted by my classmates.
These days its justa catchy rebel chant. It does not necessarily mean the people chanting it support the IRA
> There's still pubs in Dublin and other places around the country where you wouldn't want to go with an English accent.
No there's not.
I can think of maybe 2 pubs in Dublin you might get an unfrindly welcome. On a bad day.
> But for us Irish, holding onto this old identity of "the oppressed" is a part of our collective psyche
You're really really over stating how prevalent this is
> a quarter of the geographical landmass of Ireland still belongs to the old oppressors. But that's another thing we need to let go off.
We did. Remember the referendum? The one where we collectively voted to remove the territorial claim from our constitution?
Your whole comment is vastly exaggerated.
There's Americans reading. Don't be giving them the wrong ideas, they've enough to be dealing with.