In that our experience of identity though whiteness is superficial it makes sense we have no innate ability to comprehend identity as anything other than that kind of superficial.

Conversely we are trained to treat blackness as all encompassing. So I guess the synthesis of irishness is to assume it is all encompassing but also have no idea what that is so we just replicate whiteness but again.

I wonder if we have any data, cause when did the Irish become white? I know the Italians got accepted into whiteness in the 70s-80s. I can't think though when the Irish became white