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DoomsdaysCW<p>So, there was a very bad joke that some friends from Northern Ireland told me back in the 1980s (which really pissed off my English ex-boyfriend).<br>"How do you get the Brits out of Ireland?"<br>"Make them an offer they can't diffuse."<br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ireland</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IrishCatholics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IrishCatholics</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IrishHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IrishHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AntiColonial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiColonial</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Rebellion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rebellion</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TheTroubles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheTroubles</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>We recently finished the series <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DerryGirls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DerryGirls</span></a>, and my hubby found a podcast from Telegraph which tells the awful truth of why <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IrishCatholics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IrishCatholics</span></a> were so pissed off at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Protestants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Protestants</span></a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NorthernIreland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NorthernIreland</span></a>. Housing and employment <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/discrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>discrimination</span></a>, harrassment, lack of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VotingRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VotingRights</span></a>, etc. Did you know that only if you owned property you could vote, and business owners could vote twice! And guess who owned most of the property and businesses! No wonder there was rebellion!</p><p>A new series of Bed of Lies: Spies, murder and terrorists in Northern Ireland’s Troubles</p><p>by Cara McGoogan</p><p><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/bed-of-lies/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">telegraph.co.uk/bed-of-lies/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IrishHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IrishHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BritishHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BritishHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AbolishTheMonarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AbolishTheMonarchy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TheTroubles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheTroubles</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oppression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oppression</span></a></p>
Duane Aubin :verified:<p>4/15 "Ironically, <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/IrishCatholics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IrishCatholics</span></a> came to this country as an oppressed race yet quickly learned that to succeed they had to in turn oppress...blacks." </p><p>From this article, <a href="https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/history/early-american-immigration/analysis" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">shmoop.com/study-guides/histor</span><span class="invisible">y/early-american-immigration/analysis</span></a>, I read: "... some Irish embraced a virulent strain of racism to emphasize their difference from blacks...the Irish became white—and helped to create the modern concept of "the white race"—by discriminating against Blacks."</p>
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