Irish racism in England

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I am shocked. I am half English, half Irish. My Irish mum lived in England for a long time, gave birth to us children there with her English husband, and then moved back to Ireland.

The reason that she always gave me for returning to Ireland, was that, "she could not take the nastiness to her anymore". She described one incident of many to me: she went to my brother's primary teacher in England, and said that he had lost something, he must have been six at the time, and the teacher said to her , "sure what do you expect - he is half Irish".

I always thought of it in an abstract way, I never really understood what she meant. Until I spent quite a long time in the U.K this year.

I was absolutely shocked at the hatred and nastiness, and calling Irish people stupid.

How can it be possible? The U.K stole alot of Ireland's land, committed mass genocide during the famine, eradicated the Irish language,

And yet instead of apologising, many people are going around calling Irish people stupid.

Isn't it nearly unbelievable? It would be like a German going up to a Jew and calling them stupid. That it was their fault , thhat everything happened the way it did.

I am really shocked

"I included the detail that Thucydides was not a participant at the siege to highlight the fact that it's a dramatisation of negotiations/terms offered, an extrapolation from real events in which power dynamics in international relations are set forth."

...And not his ' personal view' on the war or the siege, but meant as a paradigm for the ages.

@OkPedro there is definitely a distinctly “Irish” look: usually fair skin, blue eyes, maybe freckles.

That's interesting, I was talking about this with an Irish colleague who says that she is often mistook for German! She has a very fair complexion (we joke she has blue skin!), strawberry blonde hair and blue eyes. She has an obvious Irish accent (from the South) but I must admit, looking at her you would not think straight away that she was Irish, whereas with some people you just 'know' somehow.

I remember at my Godson's wedding there was a girl who I thought looked typically Irish with a very fresh complexion, dark hair and blue eyes. She looked like a lot of the females in Dad's family and his Dad was Irish.