"A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man is of his bones. But if you break a nation's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again. It will listen to no reformer, to no philosopher and no preacher, until the demand of the Nationalist is granted. It will attend to no business, however vital, except the business of unification and liberation."

George Bernard Shaw, Preface to John Bull's Other Island.