re: "kinder"
I really don't want to get into this, but the Irish just wanted independance from being really, really invaded without just cause because the Irish were not the ones seeking to destroy anyone or having any part of any other nation, but that another nation wanted their land and them to be abolished in the process. Of course, that started about eight hundred years ago. No one has been kinder or more patient.
Like I said, that's another story and a different animal.