The Yanks beat the British Army a couple of hundred years ago and haven't stopped bleating on about it ever since, maybe our Irish cousins just didn't have it in them or finally saw sense and gave up. Sometimes you just have to suck it up and deal with losing. The Normans beat seven shades of sh.it out of the English Saxons and our language and culture was changed forever. You just have to accept it as part of your country's rich history. The Romans popped over and ruled the land for best part of 400 years forever changing our landscape. Nobody asked for it but sh.it happens.
The English have sailed around the world and opened a can of whup pass everywhere we've gone. Only difference is everyone who had the sh.it kicked out of them are coming back now wanting f.ucking apologies and compensation.