Any Americans on here with Irish ancestry?

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The thing is, Ireland never colonised anywhere, Irish were always oppressed and suffered terribly, we owe the world nothing. So why are we being forced to take in how levels of immigration into a small country like Ireland? It is destroying Irish culture and identity.
 
Sorry to here this, Ireland is in a bad state I worry for the future.
 
You don’t know what Irish blood is??Ancestry.

My advise to you is reconsider the party you are a member of.
 
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60 something generations of Irish Catholic, here (Cork). My great great great grandmother came over the plains by wagon, worked as a domestic until she saved enough money to pay for her little girl ( my great great grandmother) to sail around Cape Horn.
 
My advise “is noted and ignored” quite childish remark.
No I haven’t actually, you tried to pull the great men of 1916 as “not Irish” but you where called out for your hypocrisy.
 
Nothing to do with the PC rubbish being forced down our throats? nothing to do with the media telling us Ireland needs to change because we are “a multicultural diverse country”? Nothing to do the media and Government telling us Ireland is “too white, too Irish, and too Catholic”??
 
I’m supposed to be on posting hiatus except for prayers, but as I don’t want to be a “good man who does nothing”, I have to say that the outright racism and bigotry being expressed . . . on this thread are disturbing to me as an Irish-American and as a Catholic. By . . . this . . . logic, the Holy Family should have been excluded from living and working in Egypt because they weren’t Egyptians.

Ireland was originally settled by people who came from all over the place, they didn’t just evolve on the island in a vacuum.

One can preserve culture without needing to exclude people who don’t have a particular strain of “blood”. We’ve had Europeans on here before who carp about “blood” and it carries unpleasant overtones of pre-WWII Aryanism and modern white supremacy. As a Catholic I find it distasteful and against the teachings of the Church.

That’s all I have to say. St. Patrick, St. Brigid and all the Irish saints as well as Bobby Sands and all his friends who died, Pray for us, Pray for Ireland.
 
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You are unable to debate without insulting and calling for backup.
 
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I’m an American citizen but was born and grew up in Australia…I have 32% Irish ancestry (according to Ancestry.com)…on my moms side of the family…they immigrated to Australia at the time of the Irish famine…(or maybe they were shackled by iron chains by the British and transported as criminals…I’m not sure)
 
If you include the Americas in your invitation, then count me on you Irish ☘️ ancestry list on one of my great grandparents .
 
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I’m supposed to be on posting hiatus except for prayers, but as I don’t want to be a “good man who does nothing”, I have to say that the outright racism and bigotry being expressed by the OP on this thread are disturbing to me as an Irish-American and as a Catholic. By the OP’s logic, the Holy Family should have been excluded from living and working in Egypt because they weren’t Egyptians.

Ireland was originally settled by people who came from all over the place, they didn’t just evolve on the island in a vacuum.

One can preserve culture without needing to exclude people who don’t have a particular strain of “blood”. We’ve had Europeans on here before who carp about “blood” and it carries unpleasant overtones of pre-WWII Aryanism and modern white supremacy. As a Catholic I find it distasteful and against the teachings of the Church.

That’s all I have to say. St. Patrick, St. Brigid and all the Irish saints as well as Bobby Sands and all his friends who died, Pray for us, Pray for Ireland.
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“A good man who does nothing” ?? What exactly does that mean? Thank you for insulting me by calling me racist and a bigot. Those two words are used in Ireland daily by mainstream media and liberals to suit down any opposing views. Using the Holy family to push your narrative is nothing new either it’s actually getting old at this stage.

“Ireland was originally settled by people who came from all over the place, they didn’t just evolve on the island in a vacuum.” This statement is deeply offensive. My ancestors and many Irish in Ireland today, have lived here for hundreds and thousands of years does that mean they have no claim over this land? I’m guessing you don’t believe in ethnicity or ancestory. Every nation has a right to their homeland.
 
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If a person was born in Ireland to Chinese parents the child is Chinese just like if I had of been born in India to Irish parents I would be Irish.
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If I understand you right, I, who have never stepped foot in Ireland, and do not celebrate nor observe any Irish customs, can call myself Irish by virtue of my ancestry, but someone who was literally born and raised in Ireland isn’t. That makes no sense.
 
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nobody is questioning those issues…that’s not racist. It’s that newspaper…read my last post above…
 
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Ireland will no longer be Irish in ten years time if things keep moving in this direction. Many feel no hope is left and it is depressing what is happening to our beautiful country.
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The irony of your post is overwhelming. Back in the 1880s, the U.S. heard similar rhetoric about the Irish immigrants in America. They were a threat to “our” white, Protestant way of life - dirty, poor, and having lots of Catholic babies that would invade, out-populate “us,” and ruin “our” very way of life.

Take a deep breath. You’ll survive the immigration wave the same way the U.S. did. And you’ll be a richer culture for it.
 
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I am very informed about Irish History. I lived my youth there and went to school there and studied Irish History…Ireland was persecuted for being Catholic during the famine and penal laws, and were forced to practice Anglicanism, which was against our religion. People died of starvation rather than accept the soup bowls during the famine so they could practice their own faith. Now to do the same thing to muslims, etc, is simply wrong and denying our own past…and is certainly not Catholic as I understand it.
 
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a threat to “our” white
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In Australia, Irish Catholics were not considered “white” for most of the early colonial period. They were actually portrayed in media similar to Africans and Aboriginal Australians: apes, monkeys, etc.

It was only in the late 1840s that they were recategorised as “white”, largely because the Chinese had replaced Irish Catholics as scapegoats.
 
Because I have many friends and my parents, 3 brothers and my sister still live there. I didn’t just move to the US and have no contact with Ireland. Plus the internet allows us to be informed on what’s going on there in seconds. The problem with your viewpoint is that it’s in a vacuum. I am an immigrant in the US, and I am not a US citizen. I understand the plight of immigrants. I’m not against having managed migration, but to blame all your woes on the immigrants is just not accurate. To ban all muslims and people who are not white, european christians is simply racist…and that is the view of that newspaper you were touting. Make the argument based on facts and stop saying things about my education, politics or education. Politically I’m liberal in that I believe in helping the less advantaged but I’m not progressive…I’m not a fan of this woke culture…so in that sense I’m conservative. I’m also a practicing Catholic and I would die for my faith…so stop questioning anything about me. I’m unviersity educated and I went to secondary school in Ireland, so I am well aware of Irish history. I also went to gaeltacht on 3 occasions so I can speak Irish reasonably fluently. 'nuff said. Have a good day and remember…pray for them, don’t attack them.
 
Firstly, real communists don’t like the EU, but yes, Sinn Fein has always been a secularist left-wing party. (My relatives over there don’t like it/trust it because it’s too lefty.) It’s quite odd for a country to have two center-right parties as their main parties.
 
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