Immigrants in Ireland

crfcaio · 11-03-2012 02:49AM #1

What sorts of immigrants are there in Ireland?

It's because here in 'Merica, it's easy to have an idea of who immigrates: Latinos (Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, etc), Africans (Eritreans, Ethiopians, etc), Middle Eastern people (there's a lot of Persians here in LA), etc...

I know that there were bunches and bunches of Irish families coming to America after the Famine (U.S. History knowledge finally being used

).

Hande hoche! · 11-03-2012 02:51AM

All sorts.

crfcaio · 11-03-2012 02:53AM

Okay, I should have been more specific:

What's the largest immigrant group in Ireland?

Hande hoche! · 11-03-2012 02:54AM

Considerable numbers of British and Polish citizens. But they could be regarded as free movers rather than immigrants.

cocoshovel · 11-03-2012 02:55AM

I imagine eastern europeans? There is a lot of them, or so I notice. I dont have anything against them though. Great bunch of lads

MyKeyG · 11-03-2012 02:56AM

Probably Polish or Eastern European if you want to include a few other scattered countries but their economy is better than ours now. Second I would say Nigerian. There was a noticeable amount of Romanians for a while but I don't know where they're gone. Of course there's the Chinese but they've been immigrating here for decades so they hardly count.

Hande hoche! · 11-03-2012 02:56AM

http://www.inis.gov.ie/en/INIS/Pages/Immigration%20in%20Ireland%202011%20%E2%80%93%20a%20year-end%20snapshot%20%E2%80%93%20major%20changes%20and%20more%20to%20follow

Hopefully a helpful link for you.

fat__tony · 11-03-2012 03:01AM

There's not enough sexy asian ladies for my liking to be honest.

JONJO THE MISER · 11-03-2012 03:02AM

crfcaio wrote: »

Okay, I should have been more specific:

What's the largest immigrant group in Ireland?

Polish by far, very cold and sour lot.

eth0 · 11-03-2012 03:05AM

There's only one type of Immigrants

Bloody immigrants (also known as fordiners)

MyKeyG · 11-03-2012 03:06AM

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Polish by far, very cold and sour lot.

It seems to be a Eastern European trait to be fair. Personally while it's not saying much I find the Polish to be the nicest of the lot.

Sindri · 11-03-2012 03:08AM

Bears, birds, insects and fishys!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55sjaEDJ65k

monkeysnapper · 11-03-2012 03:20AM

jd007 · 11-03-2012 03:25AM

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Polish by far, very cold and sour lot.

generalisations ftw!

MyKeyG · 11-03-2012 03:26AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfntzfaTv9Y

charlemont · 11-03-2012 03:32AM

jd007 wrote: »

generalisations ftw!

True, I find most immigrants to be very friendly.

dvpower · 11-03-2012 10:40AM

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Polish by far, very cold and sour lot.

I think the largest single group are the British actually.

af_thefragile · 11-03-2012 11:17AM

Isn't everyone in america bar the natives an immigrant??

dlofnep · 11-03-2012 11:22AM

dvpower wrote: »

I think the largest single group are the British actually.

The Brits aren't really immigrants though. We have a common travel zone in Ireland and Britain. I don't think they would see Irish as 'immigrants' in Britain, and I don't really think anyone sees them as immigrants in Ireland.

Largest single group are the Polish lads, which is quite apparent when you see a number of Polish shops around, with polish language signs. It just stands out more.

mikemac1 · 11-03-2012 11:23AM

Hardly see any lunatics in their left hand drives cars speeding around anymore.
There were some right crazy drivers from Eastern Europe over here

Long gone now, haven't seem them in a number of years

BarackPyjama · 11-03-2012 11:26AM

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Polish by far, very cold and sour lot.

Maybe they're not cold. Maybe they just don't like us because we're largely a nation of lazy, greedy, gormless, entitled, unintelligent, jingoistic, racist alcoholics so they choose not to warm too us.

JustAddWater · 11-03-2012 12:17PM

crfcaio wrote: »

Okay, I should have been more specific:

What's the largest immigrant group in Ireland?

Culchies

SWL · 11-03-2012 12:53PM

BarackPyjama wrote: »

Maybe they're not cold. Maybe they just don't like us because we're largely a nation of lazy, greedy, gormless, entitled, unintelligent, jingoistic, racist alcoholics so they choose not to warm too us.

Then they should leave, personally I think the Latvians are very friendly bunch but many EE are very cold.

Oh and I am an immigrant before you get your knickers in a twist.

BarackPyjama · 11-03-2012 01:02PM

SWL wrote: »

Then they should leave

You're familiar with the concept of the EU, right? You have a right to work in a country without having to like the people.

SWL wrote: »

personally I think the Latvians are very friendly bunch but many EE are very cold.

Oh and I am an immigrant before you get your knickers in a twist.

Oh you're an immigrant! That makes your racist generalisations okay then. Carry on.

dvpower · 11-03-2012 01:20PM

BarackPyjama wrote: »

You're familiar with the concept of the EU, right? You have a right to work in a country without having to like the people.

He said they should leave, not that they should be forced to leave.

BarackPyjama wrote: »

Oh you're an immigrant! That makes your racist generalisations okay then. Carry on.

What were the racist generalisations?

How would you categorise this?

BarackPyjama wrote: »

Maybe they're not cold. Maybe they just don't like us because we're largely a nation of lazy, greedy, gormless, entitled, unintelligent, jingoistic, racist alcoholics so they choose not to warm too us.

donvito99 · 11-03-2012 01:21PM

Feckin Greeks, takin' our jabs and our wimmins

bwatson · 11-03-2012 01:22PM

dlofnep wrote: »

The Brits aren't really immigrants though. We have a common travel zone in Ireland and Britain. I don't think they would see Irish as 'immigrants' in Britain, and I don't really think anyone sees them as immigrants in Ireland.

British people in Ireland are of course foreign migrants.

Irish people in Britain are also foreign migrants and I think that just about everyone in Britain would recognize that, including the Irish migrants.

I know you are a republican and as such want to claim my home country as part of your own, but now you have gone up a level and are trying to claim the rest of the United Kingdom as yours too!

Anyway, research on the topic suggests that both the British and Irish government have imposed controls which have more or less ended the "passport free zone" agreement.

BarackPyjama · 11-03-2012 01:23PM

dvpower wrote: »

He said they should leave, not that they should be forced to leave.

Why should they leave? They're free to take advantage of our integrated economy as much as they're free to dislike the people that live here should they so chose.

dvpower wrote: »

What were the racist generalisations?

EE are very cold

I assume he/she wasn't talking about wintertime in Poland.

rossie1977 · 11-03-2012 01:26PM

dubliners moving to the countryside

not yet · 11-03-2012 01:29PM

BarackPyjama wrote: »

You're familiar with the concept of the EU, right? You have a right to work in a country without having to like the people.

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Oh you're an immigrant! That makes your racist generalisations okay then. Carry on.

I for one am sick to death of this sh1t, Please explain to me how a comment about people from another country being cold or not warming to someone else is racist. There are to many people in this country just waiting to jump on the racist bandwagon if an opinion does not sit well with them regarding non nationals.

not yet · 11-03-2012 01:32PM

BarackPyjama wrote: »

Maybe they're not cold. Maybe they just don't like us because we're largely a nation of lazy, greedy, gormless, entitled, unintelligent, jingoistic, racist alcoholics so they choose not to warm too us.

As asked in a prior post, would you not deem this statement to be racist.

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