As Brexit is constantly compared to the process of divorce, how about suggesting a parallel with what used to be known as “divorce Irish-style”?
Divorce was prohibited in the Irish Republic between 1923 and 1995, and only barely scraped through a majority vote on a third referendum. It’s common to blame this distaste for divorce on the Catholic Church – and Catholic values certainly played a part. But my experience is that land, and the extreme reluctance of the Irish countryman and woman to divide up any agricultural holdings (or property rights), was also a major influence.
