irish history thread

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    potatowogs

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Ireland is in the weird spot of being one of the few post colonial european countries to exist. The other ones being iceland, malta, and I think cyprus (And I mean overseas colonies not colony as in was part of decadent mega empire number #3969384
    Unfortunately unlike their other post colonial european brethren, who took their status in stride. The irish seem to have devolved into pale non-racist latino americans. I am eagerly waiting the moment they elect an obese moron with a beret who's only discernible skill is periodically saying the words "People, sovereignty, dignity"

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Ireland was never a colony of anyone.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        It was very close to a colony of the british for a long while.
        Ulster was a plantation at first.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        What definition of colony are you using that you arrived at this conclusion?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Ireland was one of the first places colonised by England. It was a colony in every sense of the word.

        Our day will come

        True.

        For such a small and honestly not very relevant island, Ireland makes Britons and Yanks seethe like nobody else. Very smug.

        It was very close to a colony of the british for a long while.
        Ulster was a plantation at first.

        Ulster plantation was late-stage plantation; plantations had been around since the mid 1500s.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          No it was a colony in no sense of the word

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >land confiscated from native population and given to colonists
            >colonists set up colonies and plantations specifically designed to project military power and exploit local resources
            >laws put in place discriminating against the people the land was taken from, elite colonial ruling class created and entrenched

            in what sense was it not a colony?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Damn so England is a French colony and did no wrong

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >an area is conquered and consolidated by its new rulers with their loyal followers from back home getting rewarded with fiefs and land and can at the same time keep the kings new subjects under control
            Nothing out of the ordinary. What is out of the ordinary is that the consolidation took an extremely long time for Ireland, largely due to the constant chimpouts from the Irishmen. You could call it colonialism, but realize that if you do, it becomes a rather meaningless term that can be applicable to almost every conquest in history.
            >religious minorities are discriminated against
            Again nothing out of the ordinary.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Whoa, that's the most powerful argument I ever saw! Who are you, and do you have a podcast I can subscribe to?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      This is probably the worst take I've ever read.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Both Ireland and Iceland were integrated parts of Britain respectively Denmark before independence and as such I wouldn't consider them ex-colonies, unless you want to classify half of fricking Europe as ex-colonies as a tonne of them were under Habsburg, Ottoman, Russian, and German yoke.

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    10 more years…

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >irish have no culture
    >we wuz LotR
    >we wuz English folk
    >we wuz norse myth
    >pray to Stonehenge 3 times a day
    >think the Wyrd is celtic
    >think full on Anglo-saxon words are celtic
    >think every English colony is irish
    >think every English writer is irish
    >think they are spiritually the same as native americans and aborigines.
    >claim they are spiritual pagans despite being christians first
    >claim they are forest loving pixies despite sawing them all down
    >claim they are more creative but no one can name anything they have created
    >thats ok just claim English stuff
    >they think they are japanese too
    >mysteriously had a fishing industry before and after the famine.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      They also claim to be egyptian

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      They also claim to be egyptian

      Yes. And?

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Been a century now since the big fella died

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >"Big Fella"
      >was actually only 5'10
      In the land of the manlets the lanklet is king

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah, that'd be Dev.

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Not a real country, just another 20th century American invention.

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Our day will come

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It still exists, even if it's in our hearts.

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    Why can’t you find another image that’s not years old?

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    >oh yeah? Well I hate Black folk!
    Stay on topic Amerishart.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >you're american if you think that being an americanized leftist is wrong

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