I'm English but where I live there are a lot of first and second generation Irish people. Everyone seems to get along fine and I haven't heard any racist name-calling for years. You would have to ask the Irish people if they still suffer from the disgusting name- calling that they had to put up with in the recent past (I hope not).

The pub at the end of my road has an Irish landlord and, while a lot of pubs seem to be going under, he has a thriving local business. Apparently the pub was heaving on the evening of St. Patrick's day (I didn't go because I can't cope with packed pubs these days). I asked the landlord how it went and he said, 'a lot of people got drunk' (now there's a surprise!). In spite of this there was none of the sort of trouble that you get in a typical English town centre on any weekend of the year.