Why the Irish are such hard work.

The Irish have  a practised and hard geniality, that velvety aggression, which makes the Irish such hard work for outsiders. 

Dublin is a city of equivocators:  so much of meaning when the Irish speak depends on the interval between words.

But for me the Irish, inveterate contrarians they may be. but jaysus athey are real Brylcreem, the  living embodiment of craique