Ireland a mixed bag? The British legitimately did some good things? You make it sound like the enslavement, genocide and the systematic extermination of their c

Ireland a mixed bag? The British legitimately did some good things? You make it sound like the enslavement, genocide and the systematic extermination of their culture and national language was a charity. You must mean the railroads they very generously set down in order to hasten the exportation of their crops (which the Irish slaved to harvest) in order to feed the rest of their empire while the Irish themselves starved, this even while the only crop they could afford to consume witnessed a blight, killing 2 million of them and forcing another 2 million to emigrate. They could though leave their religion and change their name as a token to bear this witness for a single bowl of soup if they wished so perhaps this is also the mixed bag you speak of. I must tell you too, the infighting was and is not religiously motivated. This is a common mistake. The fight is and was between nationalists (those who desire an Irish republic) and loyalists (those British settlers and their offspring who desire British rule). Their religious affiliations are an aside.