TheAncientGeek comments on Some Heuristics for Evaluating the Soundness of the Academic Mainstream in Unfamiliar Fields - Less Wrong
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"In particular, if you are from a small nation that has never really been a player in world history, your local historians are likely to be full of parochial bias motivated by the local political quarrels and grievances..."
Describes Ireland pretty well.
Small nations aren't always Roaring Mice ... some trade on being modest and unthreatening , and forming egalitarian alliances with other small nations. For instance., the Benelux Countries