Revolutionary times in Ireland?

My recollection is that Lenin's dictum is that revolutionary times have arrived when neither power nor the populace want to continue as before. So, as it is clear that there is inertia in the administration of power, Ireland is not in a revolutionary mode. This is just as well as armed rebellion is uncontrollable, by definition.

What is happening is IMO far more interesting - effectively a clear debunking of the narratives by which a self-appointed elite have maintained positions of great privilege. Anyone in Ireland who bought a house and established themselves in a a profession before 1995 ( absent state-orchestrated disasters such as befell this writer) is now sufficiently wealthy that he will be able to set up the kids as well.

However, the dominant narrative is neoliberalism; more specifically, the exit from clerical miasma into the most globalized country in the world. So anything culturally Irish is denigrated in favour of "multiculturalism", "tolerance" and various other covers for theft by an elite from the producers in the society

The problem is that the eschaton is now a point at which the Irish people, yes, CAN pay back money they didn't borrow in the first place, the better to sustain an economic, cultural and sociopolitical order that not only has visibly failed, but is without any roots in the country.

So the refusal to pay the householder's charge is perhaps very significant indeed as the treaty referendum approaches.