A recent piece in Britain’s leading publication in moral lecturing and liberal preening The Guardian is reminding Irish people, amid a wave of nativist rage and anger, that they are in fact mongrels or “a mixed bunch” and should therefore embrace open borders.
Titled ‘Who are the Irish?’, the author, an Irish History Professor in Queen’s University Belfast Maurice J. Casey who specialises in ‘modern Ireland, queer history and the history of international communism’, foists his gay race communist version of Irish identity onto his readers.
He writes of growing up in Cahir, Co Tipperary where an “estimated 30% of the population were born outside Ireland.”
Is this a bad or good thing, you may ask.
He doesn’t quite say, but elaborates further on his experiences with his multiethnic peers in school.
He mentions the Eastern Europeans of Ukrainian and Baltic descent collectively speaking Russian, and expresses the sadness he felt for a Polish friend who didn’t quite know whether they were truly Irish in the insular identitarian Republic.
But far from Cahir being a lone multicultural town amid a monocultural land, Casey extols the fact that it is “perhaps impossible, now, to find a community in Ireland without an immigrant population.”
Casey claims that “the island’s geographic position in the Atlantic has always connected it to global flows of people, goods and culture”, before adding that, “for centuries – not decades – Ireland has hosted immigrant communities.”
However, far from being an inevitability due to geography, Ireland’s recent wave of migration is anything but.
With only one airport and no direct flights from many of the countries migrants tend to come from such as Nigeria, India, Jordan etc., Ireland should be an outlier in terms of low migratory inflows.
In fact, despite such a massive uptick in migration in recent years, Ireland has managed to maintain relative homogeneity with its location acting as a bulwark to mongrelisation.
According to a scientific report in 2018 titled ‘The Irish DNA Atlas: Revealing Fine-Scale Population Structure and History within Ireland’, Ireland’s geographic position in the “North-Western seaboard of Europe” actually favours “genetic homogeneity” with “several traits found to be at high frequencies within the Irish, compared to the mainland European populations, including; cystic fibrosis, lactase persistence, coeliac disease, galactosaemia, and multiple sclerosis.” This, and other studies, imply that at least 80-85% of the native Irish genome is Gaelic Irish, existing here since pre-Viking times, making us one of the most homogenous nations in history.
It’s often noted that because Ireland never colonised or subjected any group of people to oppression it shouldn’t be tarred with the same the same brush of other nationalities such as the French and British. Invectives of ‘coloniser’ or accusations they suffer from an inbuilt ‘white guilt’ is usually followed by promoting mass immigration as an antidote.
You would think the Irish would be immune from such tropes.
Alas, amid growing waves of migration settlement in small towns and villages coinciding with greater attempts by Irish State forces to clamp down on those objecting to such unwelcome impositions, international onlookers are baffled as to why the relatively peaceful and geopolitically docile Irish have to put up with such displacement.
US media personality Tucker Carlson once said in his usual inquisitive and blunt fashion: “Why are you doing this [mass migration, white guilt] to the Irish?
“They are the indigenous population of their island and you’re watching them die and replacing them with people from the third world.”
However, this is a false narrative according to Casey.
In Casey’s world, and in the minds of most left-wing academics, the opposite is true.
In an inversion of spectacular proportions it is actually the Irish who, more than anyone, should embrace multiculturalism.
According to Casey: “Ireland’s history of diversity predates the state itself.”
His proof?
A British Pathé Reel of the “Southern Syncopated Orchestra, an early jazz band, at Dublin port in October 1921.”
The belief that the presence of a single Jazz Band in Dublin port in 1921 shows that Ireland has been a sea of diversity for centuries heretofore is verifiable proof, if one were needed, that the standards and acumen of contemporary academia is about as sacrosanct as the journalistic requirements at The Guardian.
While no official census was taken in 1921, it’s safe to assume that well over 90 per cent of the Island in the 1920s was White Irish, and no amount of British Pathé Reels negates that fact.
While the author notes that there were close to 30,000 immigrants in Ireland at the time of independence, in 1913 the founder of the Sinn Féin movement and President of Dáil Éireann until his tragic death Arthur Griffith decried the preponderance of the non-native population of “two-and-a-half per cent” as “too great a percentage for a country like ours.”
Casey further develops this tract by explaining that because of Ireland’s history of emigration a new form of national consciousness, not of nativism, but of shared “intertwining migrant histories” should emerge in direct contrast to “far-right illusions.”
Eschewing ethnos as a concept worthy of pride, Casey decries the saying “Ireland belongs to the Irish” describing it as a “far-right slogan.”
“The Irish”, in this case, signifies an imagined “Irish race” whose “purity” requires protection,” he says in a derisory tone.
The leader of Ireland’s 1916 uprising Padraig Pearse, who declared the Irish Republic at the steps of the GPO, who coined this supposedly “far-right slogan”, used it as a rallying cry in the years preceding the upheaval in central Dublin:
“Nothing that has happened or that can ever happen can alter the truth of it. Ireland belongs to the Irish. We believe, then, that it is the duty of Irishmen to struggle always, never giving in or growing weary, until they have won back their country again.”
Indeed, far from being “imagined” Pearse was fully conscious of the Irish as a “race that played a big part in early European history.”
To suggest this sentiment is somehow a recent phenomenon grown from reactionary forces to recent inflows of foreign nationals suggests the Irish History Department in Queens should consider recalling Casey for his historically constipated neo-Marxist ramblings.
Further on in the piece, he implies that “racism has a long history in Ireland and the diaspora” citing an article outlining US Vice President and current presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ familial ties to the Anglican Ulsterman slave owner Hamilton Brown.
Again, how the actions of a Scots-Irish planter, whose sole reason for being on the land was to displace the native Catholic Irish from the most hitherto Gaelicised province in Ulster, proves a long-standing association of Ireland with racism is beyond this writer’s comprehension.
As such, Casey ends his bizarre ahistorical tripe by asserting that Ireland’s “migrant story” shows how incomplete Irish identity is and further “reveals how solidarity is an active choice we make.”
Speak for yourself, Professor.
For “the right of the Irish to political independence”, according to Arthur Griffith, “never was, is not, and never can be dependent upon the admission of equal right in all other peoples.”
By overturning Ireland’s history and ignoring the sentiments of her past leaders Casey has managed to concoct an imagined version of Irish identity to conform to his preserve academic queer and Marxian abstractions.
Par for the course for The Guardian.
While you are right in much of this, you easily descend into anti-Englishness, which is the main problem of the Irish Right. You don’t know whether to oppose multi-culturalism or re-fight the 1922 war. To say Ireland has never colonised ignores the large participation of Ireland in the British Army throughout our glorious Empire.
In the Crimean War, around 30-35% of the “redcoats” were Irish, and there were huge celebrations of the victory in Dublin, including the Grand Crimean Banquet in Dublin on October 22nd 1856. This was the largest-ever formal dinner in Ireland, attended by 4,000 Crimean veterans and 1,000 members of the public, and paid for by £3,600 raised by public subscription.
If you go to St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin, as I have, you will see inside the Union Jack proudly flown, and each effigy and plaque inside triumphantly proclaiming Ireland’s participation in the British Empire. The real truth is that the Irish were British, just as the Scots are today. Kamala Harris’s relative, an Ulsterman, wasn’t just in Ireland to grab it from the Gaels. He was a British Irishman in his own country – part of the United Kingdom, in fact. It is an alternative vision of what Irishness could be like.
The full quote from Arthur Griffith is: “The right of the Irish to political independence never was, is not, and never can be dependent upon the admission of equal right in all other peoples. It is based on no theory of, and dependable in no wise for its existence or justification on the “Rights of Man,” it is independent of theories of government and doctrines of philanthropy and Universalism”. This means that his call for Irish independence had nothing to do with anti-imperialism in general or anti-slavery or anti-colonialism. It was only independence for Ireland he wanted, not for India or Africa. That is the real point. Ireland ought to be an independent, but pro-white country, conscious of its positive role in the British Empire, proud of its links to Britain and the wider white world, but standing on its own two feet. This anti-British guff that many Irish “nationalists” peddle is summat else entirely.
The main problem for the Irish right as it currently exists is the perception that we are somehow associated with England or British loyalists, not our “anti-English sentiment”. Cozying up to the English will certainly do no favours for us.
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4000 veterans is a small number and probably all from the Pale or the planters from the north. Not representative of the Irish Nation.
Undoubtable, there was a considerable proportion of Irish people in America and the British Empire forces; but there were definitely not over-represented in the higher-tiers of the ruling elites.
What is slightly contradictory in this article was the phrase and or word “White Irish” -you are virtually conceding that there is Black/Brown Irish as genetically ethnic Irish person. Mixed-race Afro-Irish for sure, like Phil Lynott being a example.
You had plenty, even an embarrassment of riches, with the myopic Casey applying his homosexual and multi-culti value system to Irish history: this really questions the standard of university education and the quality of the academics which manifest from a substandard milieu?
As soon as I see some historian hails from Queens College I know exactly what to expect. That institution seems to have an agenda to erase “Planters Guilt” by dumping their own Colonizing sins onto the shoulders of the native population they dispossessed and abused and insisting there never was any difference between the indigenous Irish and the planters who claimed the description “Irish” for themselves.
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A Queer History Queen.
Casey,
a radicalised boy historian is the proof and result of his upbringing in the 90s,the early days of Ireland’s second plantation by FOREIGNERS,(they
are not Irish on arrival to Ireland),they have neither history or connection to Modern Irish which dates back 10,000yrs,Bronze age Gaels
before Scot or Welsh…a Celtic ethnic tribe who inhabited Ireland some
+30,000+ yrs ago.
In fact,
if The Queer Qasey was not so selective in his Pickings,his early fascination with Russia contains links to the Irish,however the majority of Modern Irish 90% Dna being sourced from IRELANDS IRISH.
WE BEING,
POSSIBLY THE MOST PURE ETHNIC RACE PRIOR PLANTATION.
The Queer Qasey
also follows the tradition of Irish Historical Peddling
that only 1,000,000 “IRISH LIVES LOST” in the hunger narrative, a sick joke,a disgusting fu.king lie…THE IRISH HOLOCAUST, another
GENOCIDE BY THE BRITISH KILLED MILLIONS,PLURAL, IRISH
SO NOW,
THE PLAN,
is to link IRISHNESS with impurities,mongrelising,far right shite and
utter fu.king ranting to WHITE privileged .fu.kwits, just like the Queer Boy Qasey and the Warped British Webb…DUMB AND DUMBER QQQ
THE BRITISH IN IRELAND
made it legal,
it was unpunishable by their imposed British law to kill an IRISHMAN
this was also used in AMERICA…no blacks,no dogs and no Irish
then we had the programs,the troubles and THEIR FU.KIN BORDERS.
What sort of fu.king eejit would pay heed to ” who are the Irish ”
the continuation of an Irish History by it’s very enemies within…SCUM
It was a massive error Burkean to put an image of “The Irish Patriot ”
alongside a new generation turncoat…a Queer Theory Queens Serf …QQQ
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The Guardian’s sister publication is the Tara Street rag . Enough said .
O, he thinks he’s a homosexual, does he? No surprise then that he’s coming out with this nonsense! It’s good the Burkean is counteracting the nonsense the MSM are constantly pumping out.
I have to say that the Gaels were not a Celtic tribe in Ireland 30,000 years ago. This is nonsense. Ireland was anciently inhabited by a combination of Western Hunter Gatherers (Mesolithic) and Anatolian Farmers (Neolithic). From around 2500 BC Bronze Age migrants arrived, associated with Indo-European languages, but there is a dispute among scholars whether the Bronze Age migrants brought the Irish language, or whether Irish itself came with the Iron Age Bell Beaker migrants around 500 BC. Most scholars think the actual Goidelic tongue arrived around 500 BC . Of course, Irish ancestry combines all of these elements, so your ancestors (and mine) were in Ireland in the Mesolithic period, but they weren’t Gaels at the time and didn’t speak an Indo-European language then.
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YES they want to ethnically cleanse the Irish as their own praticalur group. It is the same shit they pull all throughout Europe. They want to exterminate us.