Very interesting rumour RE: immigrants

boardy wrote:

Based on your posts here and on other threads, I think I will skip "researching" your claims. I am sure (in your mind) that something you saw on television proves that Ireland was always a racist country. Maybe it has television footage of Irish people discriminating against the type of food they ate back in 1847.

I disagreed with your claim that Ireland was always a racist country. Your proof of this claim is that you saw it on a television show.

You should look up the definition of "hearsay" as by simply disputing your claim does not make is hearsay.

The anti-semitic boycott in Limerick in the first decade of the 20th century is known as the Limerick Pogrom, and caused many Jews to leave the city. It was instigated by an influential fundamentalist Catholic priest, Fr. John Creagh of the Redemptorist Order. He was moved by his superiors to an island in the Pacific Ocean soon after. He died in Wellington, New Zealand in 1947. Joe Briscoe, son of Robert Briscoe, the Dublin Jewish politician, describes the Limerick episode as “an aberration in an otherwise almost perfect history of Ireland and its treatment of the Jews”.1 Robert Briscoe was a prominent member of the IRA during the Irish War of Independence.

The Blueshirts of the 1930s were, at least partially, anti-semitic. David Marcus, who was born in Cork, related an incident which occurred when he was a student at UCC. When he rose to speak at a debate, the auditor (who was a member of the Blueshirts) silenced him, as he was a "foreigner" and only "Irishmen" were permitted to speak. He left, and although he wished to forget the incident, other students insisted that he return. The hall was filled with his supporters, the auditor was silenced and David Marcus made his speech. He suffered no further anti-semitic incidents. The Fianna Fáil government later banned the Blueshirts.

Ireland's behaviour towards Jewish refugees fleeing the Holocaust was, in the later words of Justice Minister Michael McDowell "antipathetic, hostile and unfeeling". Dr Mervyn O'Driscoll of University College Cork reported on the unofficial and official barriers that prevented Jews from finding refuge in Ireland: "A successful applicant in 1938 was typically wealthy, middle-aged or elderly, single from Austria, Roman Catholic and desiring to retire in peace to Ireland and not engage in employment. Only a few Viennese bankers and industrialists met the strict criterion of being Catholic, although possibly of Jewish descent, capable of supporting themselves comfortably without involvement in the economic life of the country."[2] It is estimated that Ireland accepted as few as 30 Jewish refugees before and during World War II.

There was some domestic anti-Jewish sentiment during World War II as well, most notably expressed in a notorious speech to the Dáil in 1943, when independent T.D. Oliver J. Flanagan advocated "routing the Jews out of the country". Two Irish Jews, Esther Steinberg and her infant son, are known to have been killed during the Holocaust, which otherwise did not substantially directly affect the Jews actually living in Ireland.

boardy wrote:

I have to question the maturity of the pro “Ireland was always a racist country” poster. You are by default condemning millions of people based on some people being anti-semitic.

The blanket claim of Irish people being racist since time began is astounding and the arguments put forward are incoherent and quite illogical.