He's quoting another famous imperialist mammy's boy, Rudyard Kipling.Ian Paisley in his hey-day would be hard pressed to come out with zingers like this
"We learn old lessons anew, and duly forget them again: that the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire, and the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire ..."
That article is more a performance than a piece of writing from the heart, I suspect. "Kevin Myers" is about as real as Iggy Pop or Ozzy Osbourne