Today’s Ireland is experiencing significant ethnic and racial diversity for the first time in its history, and the country’s new look has undoubtedly made some Irish feel uncomfortable.
There have been a couple of attempts – the Normans, the Plantation – and it’s not wholly certain that either of them worked out wholly all that well.
You seem to have overlooked the Vikings who established a major colony around Dublin (and some lesser ones elsewhere) from the end of the eighth century to the beginning of the tenth and spent much of the time fighting the Irish and each other. A second invasion took place a dozen years after the first ended …
Wasn’t Dublin Europe’s biggest or 2nd biggest slave market during that period? I know it was Vikings running the trade but I’ll bet if you dig deep there was plenty of Irish involvement.
and the country’s new look has undoubtedly made some Irish feel uncomfortable
Yes, being stabbed and raped is uncomfortable.
And finding out your countrymen (who fought the British tooth and nail) are encouraging it is even more uncomfortable
Christmas decoration for our Irish friends…
Apart from the survivors of the Spanish Armada (no not the Thudborg one, the Francis Drake one) from whom come the Black Irish, there is the ancient tale of how Ulf Hreda disembowelled Brodir the Viking. Over the centuries quite a lot of admixture has taken place.
“from whom come the Black Irish” Good God, do people still repeat such implausible folk tales? You’ll be telling me you believe in The Exodus next, and Joshua’s conquest of Canaan.
Douglass’s positive experiences in Ireland lands well with African Americans today, many of whom are happy to see themselves as part of a multifarious Irish diaspora whose heterogeneity is there to be recognised and celebrated.
So diversity is their strength as well?
An article that left me scratching my head as to why it was considered worthy of being linked to. Maybe I missed something vital with all the inconsistencies, over-reaches and preening clouding my vision. Any objective assessment of the consequences of the lack of integration brought about by Ireland’s policies was conspicuous by its absence. The multicultural elephant in the room remained undisturbed.
I was last in Dublin about a dozen years ago. Everyone there was Polish.
Not any more. Although half the people do seem off the heads on some sort of gear.
After a commenter on another site called out all the ‘white English idiots who fly the flag of St George, a man born in Turkey who never came to Britain’, I decided to do a little digging:
St Patrick, born in Britain, but taken to Ireland as a boy by Irish slavers.
St. Andrew, born in the middle east, never went anywhere near Scotland (probably didn’t know it existed).
But flying the flag of St.George is wrong because……..
Before the Normans, indeed before the Romans, how about the Cruithne i.e. the Britons who lived in Ireland? They vanished. Genocided? Ethnically cleansed? Enslaved? Or just assimilated? Nobody knows. The idea that one arbitrary part of a small archipelago could stay racially pure is just Nazi nonsense.
In recent times Irish Nationalist Roman Catholic Nazis, obvs.
If the establishment believe diversity is so good, why are Plod recruiting blacks, Pakistanis and Indians because blacks, Pakistanis and Indians prefer to be arrested by blacks, Pakistanis and Indians?
You’re expecting joined up thinking from TPTB?
Nowadays I don’t even expect thinking.
The establishment does not believe diversity is good for you, it believes it is good for it, specifically its wider policy of divide and rule, with an added dash of ‘people like arresting and beating members of other groups more than they like doing it to their own’.
They are ultimately going to have the finding outest time in the history of fucking aroundism, I fear, but I don’t believe they think they have many other options at this late stage in the game.
That’s why Plod are ‘recruiting blacks, Pakistanis and Indians’.