{"id":264995,"date":"2023-02-12T09:20:48","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T09:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=264995"},"modified":"2023-02-14T06:59:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T06:59:55","slug":"ireland-is-full-and-interesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=264995","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ireland Is Full!&#8221;\u2026 and Interesting"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">John Derbyshire \u2013 The Unz Review Feb 10, 2023<\/h1>\n<p><strong>See, earlier (2016) <a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/articles\/brave-new-ireland-how-the-island-of-saints-and-scholars-became-a-multicultural-dystopia\">Brave New Ireland\u2014How the Island of Saints and Scholars Became a Multicultural Dystopia<\/a> and (2006) <a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/articles\/ireland-though-all-the-world-specifically-the-irish-pm-betray-thee\">Ireland: Though All The World (Specifically, The Irish PM) Betray Thee.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>[<\/strong><em><strong>Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available <a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/radio_derb\">exclusively <\/a>on VDARE.com<\/strong><\/em><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/articles\/john-derbyshire-loudoun-county-backlash-it-takes-a-chinese-immigrant-to-see-crt-is-a-mao-style-cultural-revolution\">Cultural Revolution<\/a> rolls on, crushing all before it under its mighty wheels: nationhood, <a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/articles\/john-derbyshire-we-should-be-talking-about-meritocracy-s-problems-but-new-york-s-de-blasio-just-wants-to-destroy-the-whole-thing\">meritocracy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/posts\/christians-and-the-myth-of-persecution-the-only-group-you-can-write-that-about\">Christianity<\/a>, freedom of speech and <a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/articles\/three-key-terms-that-could-have-saved-mike-pence-and-will-save-america\">association<\/a>, equal <a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/articles\/john-derbyshire-diversity-is-strength-it-s-also-not-equal-justice-under-law\">justice<\/a> under the law, \u2026 all the props of Western Civilization. We normies watch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnderbyshire.com\/Opinions\/Diaries\/Extras\/juggernaut.jpg\">the juggernaut<\/a> roll, hoping and praying for some sign of counterrevolution, for evidence that ordinary, not-very-political citizens will not go gentle into the good night of high-tech Anti-White authoritarianism.<\/p>\n<p>And we have been getting some encouraging signs recently from Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>The Cultural Revolution has been <a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/letters\/an-irish-reader-writes-on-ireland-s-first-non-white-leader\">proceeding<\/a> much faster and more ruthlessly in <a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/posts\/ireland-californicating-why\">that country<\/a> than elsewhere. In part that\u2019s because Ireland had further to go. <a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/posts\/ireland-has-become-the-heart-of-wokeness\">I myself have been writing for years<\/a> about how the Ireland of fifty years ago, then perhaps the most culturally conservative white nation, <a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/posts\/kevin-myers-hitler-s-revenge-and-african-aids-in-ireland\">transformed itself<\/a> into the Heart of Wokeness after joining the EU in 1973.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not very surprising under the circumstances that Ireland has bought into the Open-Borders aspect of globalism.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s even less surprising when you recall that for three hundred years there Ireland, with its poverty and high fertility, was a poster child for <em>e<\/em>-migration to <a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/posts\/wars-of-religion-in-liverpool\">Britain<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/articles\/ganging-up-on-america\">U.S.A.<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/articles\/banned-in-oz-posted-on-vdare-com-fraser-s-rethinking-the-white-australia-policy-with-comment-by-peter-brimelow\">Australia<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Irish_New_Zealanders\">New Zealand<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well, things may be changing. The last few days have seen major demonstrations against Ireland\u2019s Open Borders. Wednesday this week VDARE\u2019s own correspondent <a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/writers\/p-draic-obannon\">P\u00e1draic O\u2019Bannon<\/a> gave us <a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/posts\/ireland-is-rising-and-ireland-is-full-irish-patriots-have-had-enough-of-the-great-replacement\">a great montage of Twitter clips<\/a> showing ordinary Irish people fighting back against their demographic replacement.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddea<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ireland?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ireland<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shocking video shows rival migrants armed with baseball bats and machetes turn city into warzone as brawl breaks out<\/p>\n<p>This is why <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IrelandSaysNO?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IrelandSaysNO<\/a>. Their streets are becoming unrecognizable and the Irish have had enough. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FyOgHoCpPE\">pic.twitter.com\/FyOgHoCpPE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Truthseeker (@Xx17965797N) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Xx17965797N\/status\/1623234222436622336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>For a deeper dive into the politics of the situation\u2014and I speak here as one who has been doing political commentary about Ireland for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnderbyshire.com\/Opinions\/Britain\/bertiesquandary.html\">more than twenty years<\/a>\u2014I recommend Peter Ryan\u2019s recent column over at Unherd.com:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u2026[G]rassroots anti-migrant protests are sweeping across the country, rallying around the slogan \u201cIreland is Full.\u201d There were 307 anti-migrant protests in 2022, while 2023 has already seen 64. At the latest demonstration in Dublin, on Tuesday [February 6], more than 2,000 protestors took to the streets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">[<em><a href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/2023\/02\/the-rise-of-irelands-anti-migrant-protests\/?=frlh\">The rise of Ireland\u2019s anti-migrant protests<\/a>,<\/em> February 9, 2023]<\/p>\n<p>As here and in Britain, the Irish Establishment is determined to do nothing at all about the inflow, and to slander, harass, and when necessary arrest those who demonstrate against it.<\/p>\n<p>This has been easy for them as Ireland has been under Uniparty rule for a hundred years.<\/p>\n<p>Two big political parties have held power across that long span. Fianna F\u00e1il is very approximately the U.S. Democratic Party, with more working-class support; Fine Gael is more business-friendly, like our GOP.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s highly theoretical, though. In practice there\u2019s been no daylight between the two parties for decades. They are now united in globalism, determined to keep the borders open, and full of angry denunciations of the \u201cFar Right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sound familiar?<\/p>\n<p>A great curiosity in this situation: the minority party, Sinn F\u00e9in. Twenty-three years ago I was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnderbyshire.com\/Opinions\/Britain\/terrorismworks.html#sinnfein\">describing<\/a> Sinn F\u00e9in\u2014correctly, of course\u2014\u201dthe only plausible nationalist-patriotic party in Ireland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sinn F\u00e9in was so nationalist-patriotic that they were at one point arguing for Ireland to leave the European Union. They were so nationalist-patriotic they served as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnderbyshire.com\/Opinions\/Britain\/wormintheshamrock.html\">political front<\/a> for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnderbyshire.com\/Opinions\/Britain\/prematureantiterrorist.html\">terrorists<\/a> carrying out bombings and assassinations in <a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/posts\/malcolm-gladwell-talks-about-the-people-of-northern-ireland-it-s-the-peoples\">British<\/a>-ruled <a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/posts\/northern-irish-girls-on-the-beach-in-northern-ireland\">Northern Ireland.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nationalist-patriotic? Oh yeah.<\/p>\n<p>So Sinn F\u00e9in is leading the counter-revolution against Open Borders and the destruction of Irish nationhood, right?<\/p>\n<p>Er, no.<\/p>\n<p>Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s current leadership is totally at one with the Uniparty, supporting Open-Borders globalism. The current president of Sinn F\u00e9in, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinnfein.ie\/mary-lou-mcdonald\">Mary Lou McDonald<\/a>, is a middle-class female Social Justice Warrior.<\/p>\n<p>She represents a working-class constituency in Dublin, Ireland\u2019s capital. None of the news stories and commentaries on this week\u2019s demonstrations failed to notice that\u2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">[Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s] failure to provide a nationalist stance on these issues means they are often the most hated by protestors; a placard picture of Mary Lou MacDonald bearing the word \u201ctraitor\u201d was lustily booed at the original East Wall protest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">[<em><a href=\"https:\/\/fitzfromdublin.substack.com\/p\/a-total-loss-of-narrative-control\">A Total Loss of Narrative Control<\/a>,<\/em> by Conor Fitzgerald; Substack, February 8, 2023]<\/p>\n<p>Could a genuinely nationalist party come up in Ireland, a nation that was once ardent in protection and preservation of its national identity? Well, one already has: the five-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishfreedom.ie\/\">Irish Freedom Party<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The IFP hasn\u2019t made much of a mark yet and has suffered from all the weaknesses and personality issues that always afflict small new parties; and of course Ireland\u2019s ruling class will do all it can to crush them.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re out there, though, and not throwing bombs or shooting cops <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnderbyshire.com\/Opinions\/Britain\/newsfromireland.html\">Sinn F\u00e9in-style.<\/a> Let\u2019s see what develops.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnderbyshire.com\/Opinions\/Britain\/interestingireland.html\">as I wrote all those years ago<\/a>, is <em>interesting<\/em>, a place worth watching.<\/p>\n<p><em>John Derbyshire [<\/em><a href=\"mailto:gxnmvw7e@gmail.com\"><em>email him<\/em><\/a><em>] writes an <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnderbyshire.com\/Opinions\/page.html\"><em>incredible amount<\/em><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/articles\/algebra-and-american-civilization\"><em>on all sorts of subjects<\/em><\/a><em> for all kinds of outlets. (This <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/articles\/john-derbyshire-who-are-we-the-dissident-right\"><em>no longer includes<\/em><\/a><em> National Review, whose editors had some kind of tantrum and<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/posts\/rich-lowry-fires-john-derbyshire\"><em> fired him.<\/em><\/a><em>) He is the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/articles\/john-derbyshire-says-we-are-doomed-good-news-for-the-alternative-right\"><em>author<\/em><\/a><em> of<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Are-Doomed-Reclaiming-Conservative-Pessimism\/dp\/0307409589\/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;tag=vd0b-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism<\/a><em> and several other <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/John-Derbyshire\/e\/B000AQ4V0O\/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;tag=vd0b-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\"><em>books<\/em><\/a><em>. He has had two books published by VDARE.com com: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lulu.com\/shop\/john-derbyshire\/from-the-dissident-right\/paperback\/product-21002437.html\">FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT<\/a><em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/From-The-Dissident-Right-ebook\/dp\/B00CDSR7VC\/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;tag=vd0b-20\">also available in Kindle<\/a>) and <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/books\/new-john-derbyshire-anthology-from-the-dissident-right-ii\">FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT II: ESSAYS 2013<\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Originally posted at <a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/articles\/john-derbyshire-ireland-is-full-and-interesting\">VDare<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/jderbyshire\/ireland-is-full-and-interesting\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years of unrestricted immigration have put strain on Ireland\u2019s job sector, housing and health care. Prompting grassroots protest against the elite imposed social engineering. John Derbyshire explains why what happens next could be interesting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":264997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-migrant-crisis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264995"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264999,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264995\/revisions\/264999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/264997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}