Will Ireland Survive the Woke Wave: If your economy is ruled from California, then your culture will be too

A 2020 article about the cultural change occurring in Ireland.

Talk to an educated Irish person in a global city today, and you will quickly discover that they hold the twin ideologies of post-Celtic Tiger Ireland: a vague sentimental remnant of the Irish ethno-nationalism of the revolutionary period and the internationalist and multicultural open society values of Google.

Point out that these are contradictory in any way, like mentioning Ireland’s role as an international tax haven or asking why there are so many Irish nationalists living in London, Berlin and San Francisco and so few living in Dublin, and you will be met with defensive anger.

As a former colony, historically unsullied by the sins of slavery and imperialism, Ireland’s national identity has been largely free of the culture of pathological self-hatred found across most of the liberal West today. An uncomplicated sense of national pride has remained the default, even and sometimes especially on the political Left. But all of that is about to change. [Cont...]

It's always astonished me that the Irish spent so long trying to free themselves from British influence only to give away their country in favor of open borders multiculturalism.

I was alerted to this article by John Derbyshire's post. It's short but the links are worth exploring for those interested:

• https://vdare.com/posts/ireland-has-become-the-heart-of-wokeness

Keith Woods really has his work cut out. I wish him well.