I always laugh when I think of that poster. “You don't get to be racist and Irish - because we're not like other countries, which are nasty and racist”.
Thank you Conor, for your insightful article. Our modern nation bears very little likness to the one DeValera aspired to in " The Ireland that we dreamed of" speech.
On the one hand, I dislike racism.
On the other hand, I dislike billboards telling me what I don't "get" to do. It's like something out of John Carpenter's THEY LIVE.
(I'm not an Irish citizen, but I perhaps mistakenly bought into the stereotype that you were a contumacious people, difficult to control.)
Contumacious - great word. Thank you.
I always laugh when I think of that poster. “You don't get to be racist and Irish - because we're not like other countries, which are nasty and racist”.
Thank you Conor, for your insightful article. Our modern nation bears very little likness to the one DeValera aspired to in " The Ireland that we dreamed of" speech.