Ireland is angry. Surveys shout it. Anecdote too. Seething anger, seemingly everywhere. And yet, Ireland is prosperous. Historically so. Relatively and absolutely. Collectively and individually. By almost any measure. So, what gives? Often, the answer is a stock character: the disgruntled emigrant at the airport, the stoic patient on the trolley or the frazzled house hunter in the suburbs. But such characters have always been with us, and in greater numbers with much less anger. And in truth, there’s more of them in less angry places almost everywhere else today. So, what gives? The Nobel committee deciding on the 2002…

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