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- čas přidán 8. 07. 2024
- Today we chat with Patrick R. O'Malley about his new book The Irish and the Imagination of Race: White Supremacy across the Atlantic in the Nineteenth Century (www.upress.vir...)
In the American context they were considered White. That's why they were able to be citizens. "White men of good character" was the law for who could gain citizenship.
I don't think anybody in their right mind can equate the awful plight of black people in America to the discrimination the Irish endured, two different things.
To go off on a tangent, two other very different things that are always glossed over in talks like this are the native (Catholic) Irish, and the so-called 'scotch-Irish' or ulster Scots, who were not Irish at all. Two different animals, don't conflate the two.
47:00 when he talks about impoverished people of Irish descent in the slave owning states, those are mostly Ulster Scots presbyterian migrants from the planted north of Ireland, of Scots/English descent. There was no significant ((native) Irish presence in the US until the Famine hit. They had little or no agency until after emancipation.
As an Irish person, I don't want to be lumped in with planters and Anglo-IIrish aristos just to make the narrative easier. Didn't appreciate the constant references to pints of Guinness either, speaking of stereotypes.
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