Year ends with emigration from Ireland highest since Famine times

Ireland North--Your mention of The Gathering prompts me to venture repeating what I have suggested on this site and elsewhere. Irish or of Irish heritage throughout the world should use The Gathering to expose the fraud that underlies it. A government which facilitates emigration by Irish and their replacement by foreign settlers should be condemned by all who love Irish heritage, tradition and identity--the very values that The bogus Gathering pretends to promote. Irish Americans should raise the Repopulation of Ireland by foreign settlers at every opportunity this year, and reject the spurious advertizing that falsely shows Ireland as still Ireland. We should actively boycott vacationing in Ireland, for we are only interested in Ireland as long as it is Ireland.

It was King James I who devised the policy of transplanting indigenous Irish as white slaves and indeptured servants to Barbados and Virginia, and settling their confiscated land with displaced Anglo-Scottish planter settlers. Achieved with radical finesse by the Lord Protector Oliver I in the mid-17th c. Continued (after Citizen Cromwell's abbreviated experiment in English republicanism) by sucessive restored British monarchs to the penal colonies by transportation in the 18th/19th c. Strange as it may seem, after 90 years of indigenous home rule (autonomy rather than independence) in the greater part of Ireland, the same dynamic is playing itself out. Why? Because, while the nationality of the rulers was substituted, their class was not. Hence, unconscious repetition compulsion! The class that has ruled most of Ireland since 1922 are merely Anglo-Saxons in drag. Redcoats in green jackets. And poor auld Joe Sixpack still has to follow the well trodden trail of his class predecessors. I repeat my assertion! Foreign immigration to Ireland is most popular with those who are least effected by it, and who couldn't care less about Irish emigration from Ireland. 20% immigration into a state with 15% unemployment is 5% insanity! No emigrants remittances (or Gatherins') without diasporic representations for the Scattered!

Just a hunch, Curtis! :)

"Might be a wee bit of history missing here perhaps??" Ya think?

The UK has always been more of a friend to Ireland than the US??? Hmmmm... Might be a wee bit of history missing here perhaps??

" YES MOST IMMIGRATED TO THE UK AND AS IM ALWAYS SAYING ITS THE UK NOT THE USA ..... THE UK ISS MORE OF A FRIEND TO IRELAND THEN THE USA .... " Emigration is easier primarily it is a member of the European Union not because of some type of benevolence (the origins of mass immigration are in the elites desire for cheap labor).

Steven - do you think there may be a reason the US is on guard?????

YES MOST IMMIGRATED TO THE UK AND AS IM ALWAYS SAYING ITS THE UK NOT THE USA ..... THE UK ISS MORE OF A FRIEND TO IRELAND THEN THE USA .... FOR ANY IRISH MAN EVEN GOING TO HOLIDAY TO AMERICA WILL SEE THE TOUGH INTERROGANTION WE HAVE TO GO THROUGH TO GET THERE... IS HIGHLY INSULTUING ... MIND YOU NOW IN EUROPE AMERICANS NOW ALSO GET INTERROGATED AND QUESTIONED AND ITS EQUALLY DIFFICULT FOR YOU TO COME HERE ... SO THATS ONLY A GOOD THING :-) ..AS THEY SAY WHATS GOOD FOR THE GOOSE IS GOOD FOR THE GANDER ..

Eiriamach, you just resent me because I have on several occasions defended the Catholic Church against your Know Nothing fundamentalist attacks. You're just a bigot. Isn't there a Klavern meeting tonite that you need to go to?

Oh heavens to Betsy again! Trying to stir up bigotry and fear, WoundedKnee says that foreigners and refugees coming to Ireland portends "Doomsday," a nightmare worse than Margaret Thatcher, and the end of Irish nationality and heritage! Instead of Foxy Woxy, the monster named emigration/immigration is about to devour Chicken Little, Goosey Woosey, Henny Penny, and anyone else who's in a panic about the sky falling or Irish nationhood ending.

@fallstherat " emigrate to UK, the irish still can't wait to get the brit handout" That’s what I was suggesting, that your troll brother swillhamilton emigrate to his beloved terror state and stop squatting on stolen land in Ireland. “brit handout” lol – The reparations owed by the british terror state to the Irish people (as well as a host of other indigenous peoples) are incalculable – let’s just start with the stolen tithes to the state “Church” the Irish people were forced to pay for centuries.

Thanks, Falls Rat!

emigrate to UK, the irish still can't wait to get the brit handout

emigrate, rather.

@swillhamilton " Independence has proved conclusively that Ireland is a country that can't run itself." It has proved conclusively that Ireland, a tiny country, with little to no natural resources and a hostile neighbor occupying the northern part of its country, has been a much more stable democracy than other post-colonial states (let’s not forget that the british terror state was on its knees to the IMF in 1975 and is not in great shape in the present). The problem is the poisonous influence of the anglo-sphere through the Dublin establishment and their vision of industrial estate Ireland which to the financial crisis. It was the criminal decision to force the Irish people to bailout of the international creditors of international banks that led to the nation’s current financial condition. Unfortunately, alien squatters such as swillhamilton inexplicably never choose to immigrate despite their antipathy towards the indigenous peoples.