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It's one of these things in international geography.
I've always thought that Australians and New Zealanders always got along well (after all, you have things like ANZAC).
But it's hardly a unique situation around the world.
India, Pakistan and Bangladesh have always had tensions, partly on religious grounds.
On the other hand, you've got Germany and Austria who have always been very close in terms of relations.
In Britain we have a complicated relationship with the Irish. In the general public, there's little bad blood (at least in Britain, there isn't much overt anti-Irish sentiment) but it runs through Ireland being subject to Britain for some 800 years.
Of course, Northern Ireland is still part of Britain (it's mostly protestant like the rest of Britain unlikely mainly Catholic Ireland, which has been part of how Northern Ireland, when it was Ulster, remained allied to Britain during the war of independence)
Of course, now Northern Ireland has a deep history of civil unrest and terroism because of the division between the people between relations between Britain and Ireland.
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