1. El Legado del Colonialismo en la Conciencia Irlandesa.
El colonialismo británico ha dejado una huella profunda en la identidad irlandesa, generando un fuerte sentimiento anti-colonialista y una empatía hacia otros pueblos oprimidos.
- British colonialism has deep and wide roots. I think we often forget what it did to ireland.
- Irish folks know colonialism and genocide when they see it. England wrote the blueprints for both on their bodies and their land.
- Ireland was a tragic testing ground for english colonialism; i’m pretty sure every other colonised people can see parallels with how we’ve been treated and what the irish have been subjected to. They are our elder brothers and sisters in the struggle against oppression.
2. Irlanda y la Solidaridad con Palestina: Un Paralelismo Histórico.
La experiencia irlandesa bajo el dominio británico se utiliza a menudo como un punto de referencia para comprender y apoyar la causa palestina, estableciendo paralelismos entre ambas luchas contra la opresión y el colonialismo.
- Why do the irish loathe colonialism-& instinctively stand with palestinians, ukraine etc? it’s because uniquely amongst western european countries, we were the colonised.
- Good on ireland! thanks for flying palestinian flags at football events. Back at you. The irish know oppression and colonialism.
- You should read up on british colonialism in ireland and palestine. It’s not as different as you might think. Are you from israel?
3. La Participación Irlandesa en el Colonialismo: Una Perspectiva Compleja.
Aunque Irlanda fue víctima del colonialismo, también hubo irlandeses que participaron en proyectos coloniales, lo que genera un debate complejo sobre la complicidad y la responsabilidad histórica.
- Also another case where you gotta sussy side eye if an irish diaspora person leans heavily on the irish experience under the brits’ imperialism, but then if they happen to never tackle the irish’s own, obvious participation in settler colonialism etc… hmm!
- One of my books discussed colonialism in ireland and its manifestations in irish americans who, for example, helped colonize the west and the native peoples. The reviewer dismissed this by asserting "irish people can't be colonizers.".
- It is this tension that makes the irish in global colonialism context difficult. You have the horrors of plantations, cromwell, the anti-catholic laws, shipping irish people to barbados, and colonial paramilitary policing- these are all acts of colonialism. But what about how some irish benefitted?
4. El Uso del Término "Colonialismo" y la Identidad Irlandesa Actual.
Existe un debate sobre la validez de aplicar el término "colonialismo" a la situación actual en Irlanda, con algunos argumentando que se utiliza en exceso y otros defendiendo su relevancia para comprender las dinámicas de poder persistentes.
- How is stating the definition of colonialism “shallow tribalism”? ireland didn’t send their best and brightest. I guess we should just be thankful you resisted the urge to become a cop.
- I will admit i think in the wider discussion around colonialism, the irish experience is brushed aside because both parties involved were white.
- Irish rely 100% on the goodwill and protection of the uk - while also are always bleating resentfully about colonialism and identifying themselves with third world. I think contradictions of their self-imposed dependency melt their brain.
5. La Influencia del Colonialismo en la Cultura y la Política Irlandesa.
El colonialismo ha tenido un impacto duradero en la cultura, la lengua y las instituciones políticas irlandesas, generando un debate continuo sobre la descolonización y la recuperación de la identidad nacional.
- One final [i hope] comment. Ireland is a post-colonial country. We were the laboratory for experimentation in colonialism for almost a thousand years. As a result there is a natural anti-establishment element to irish culture - given that that establishment was a foreign colonial power.
- A lot of people forget a lot of terms to do with colonialism and imperialism stem from ireland - such as phrases like "beyond the pale" (i live *in* the pale, which is the leinster province lol); and more particularly boycotts, which was used by the local irish to unperson their colonial overlords.
- The effects of colonialism: ireland is the only country whose current population. Is less than what it was in 1840. After all we've been through in the last 800 years, it's a shame to see a rise in right wing scumbags, especially those who support isreal.