A dark side to Irish nationalism
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It is something of a novelty to see Irish workers holding up portraits of Michael Collins alongside slogans demanding ‘Pakis out’.
  • frightful_hobgoblinOP
    13·
    2 months ago

    Nothing makes me angrier than the right appropriating the symbols of anti-imperialist struggle.

    These guys will wave signs of Patrick Pearse as a right-wing “Ireland for the Irish” nationalist statement. It’s a total dishonour to the memory of the Fenian movement, who didn’t promote anything like that. (Pearse was the son of an immigrant.)

    The anti-immigrant movement is tied with the imperial core. It’s a fundamentally imperialist movement, not anti-imperialist.

    • Z3k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      You just broke me. Grew up in the 80s in Glasgow and just realised I have never seen fenian written down before. I have no idea how that’s possible