ill send links for u to do your own research of the complex and precarious history of Ireland
By the way I'm not saying TikTok is a good source of information, the video is of an Irish singer explaining what happened if you want to give it a listen.
And the second video just sort of gives u a small idea about the early 1900's of Ireland.
"English rule for hundreds of years that erased our culture and language almost completely, killed our people, fueled famines, incited violence across the island as a whole, spread a toxic image of our people that resulted in Irish people being discriminated against globally with some places still having a very negative ...21 Mar 2023"
en.wikipedia.org
so before you try educate me on the atrocities committed by the English on my country, take some time to know what you're talking about before speaking.
yeah MISTAKEN would be a fucking understatement pal. We were made a fucking mockery of and still are left with the shreds that remains of Ireland now. I'm lucky enough to be one of the small 30,000 people that speak my native language and we have no other to blame than the English conquerors for that. We were paid off to not teach our children Irish. We were victim to extreme murder and brutality up until just about 30 years ago with the troubles in the north. My own parents had their cars blown up. People in my family died to brits, but im not gonna sit here and huff and puff and throw a strop about it. Crying about how shit your country is because it got conquered by a nation stronger than yours won't do anything.
What went on in South America is not even comparable to what went on in Ireland. End of discussion on that.
"international relations" in question:
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The Irish were loathed. But don't worry I seen you said "later on" and here's how said relations did NOT come into play later on:
-Did not partake in either world war.
-During the troubles in the 80's the republic and the north received NO help from any international country
-EU Bailout (2008–2010) Despite EU membership, Ireland had NO leverage to negotiate softer bailout terms.
he international relations Ireland had (within EU or with the US) didn’t protect it from harsh austerity measures and Ireland couldn’t rally broader global financial support or soften EU-imposed terms using international diplomacy.
-Partition of Ireland (1921) No international powers intervened to prevent or influence partition. The Treaty negotiations were bilateral There was NO involvement from the League of Nations. Ireland didn’t seek or receive international arbitration to prevent partition or protect minority rights in the North.
Others you can look into yourself include:
-Lack of NATO membership
-UN membership
-Language and culture Preservation
-Brexit fallout.
And we did NOT "much money" because no one would hire the Irish. As you can see from the images I included, no one wanted anything to do with Irish people. We were down there with blacks in America, and even worse in other countries.
I find this laughable that you haven't even bothered to look into what REALLY happened during the famine, which is exactly what I have highlighted. You hear all this about potatoes and that's all we eat because that is all we COULD eat. Every last other plant and food source of livestock was taken away from us and exported out for profit by the English.
This is a great point you made. Ireland would not be attractive without the English influence on the country. That's why I don't whine about it, I have just very briefly explained it above. So here I don't disagree with you, but there's plenty of non-English speaking countries in Europe that are a lot more well-off than Ireland, without the influence of the English. For example, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Finland, and Denmark.
I have already addressed points similar to this above. As for education here are some things the English did to Ireland's education:
-The Penal Laws (1695–1829) – No Education for Catholics
-Anglicization of Curriculum
-National School System (1831) – Subtle Control
-No Universities for Catholics
Yet we still came out better-off than South Americans.
Here's some proof that race DOES actually impact IQ:
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Then there was an argument proposed that the latter had lower IQ due to poverty and lack of education.
So there was a study done that was where black children were adopted into white families, given all the education the same as their white "siblings" and yet the blacks still had a lower IQ with being raised in THE EXACT SAME conditions and given the EXACT SAME opportunities.
Here's this study it's actually very interesting, you should give it a read.
en.wikipedia.org
Cheers lad
Anyway I'm excited for your response this is getting fun