The ending seems to hint religious buildings did Society no good for two centuries, and adapted for industry and enterprise, they again did. I must say that's bold for a 1960s Ireland, which must have been deeply religious. Maybe this signified the rise of Ireland as participating in world commerce at that. What was not a surprise was that USA was the biggest export, after all you have lots of countrymen there who still cherish the work and designs from the old country.
