The bizarre ‘bit’ on last Saturday’s Late Late Show in which US presenter Conan O’Brien was coaxed into mocking the Irish-language names of people in the audience was an illustration of this self-loathing colonial cringe. Evidently, the Anglocentric mind finds great amusement in different languages having different phonetic systems.

Late Late Show audience members denigrating the Irish language, couching this ridicule as ‘humour’.

It would help overcome our colonial legacy, like the way you can overcome bullying by becoming a bully yourself.

We can turn the Azores into an Irish holiday destination and ban English hen/stag nights.