The country with the highest tea-input per head is still Ieland I believe, by some way. It used to be Australia coming in secnd I think well head of England. The idea of Austraians thinking of tea-drinking as a particularly English thing is a bit strange.

Here's a link to Barry's Tea, based in Cork, which is the most popular Irish brand. (That link takes ages to load, but it's interssting enough to read when it does. Think of it as needing time to brew.)

Maybe when the tea-drinking Irish got to Boston they got the notion that it might seem a bit unpatriotic in the light of the Boston Tea Party being such a big thing, and switched to coffee..

Where that notion Carol mentions might hev come from I hesitate to suggest.