For the most part, Ireland is Irish. That goes for more than just demographics: the people, plants, animals, foods, language - it is all distinctly Irish. The Irish government is extremely intent on keeping Ireland this way, as I have written about in the Government section. For the people, however, Ireland has lately been shifting more and more into a multicultural society. With a current population of less than Houston's it's not hard to see how a relatively small influx of people from other regions could cause a noticeable shift in proportions. Luckily, after its separation from the UK, the division between English Protestants and Irish Catholics became much less heated, and as a result, eighty years later, religions other than Christianity are also widely accepted.
One thing I did not see, however, were certain sections of cities that represented a specific culture. For instance, there were no China Towns, or Little Vietnam's, or even "Little Turkey's" as I saw in Germany. I suppose, with the fact that many of the China Towns in the US are larger than many towns in Ireland, there perhaps is not a number large enough to create such sections of the cities.
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