Anti-British Xenophobia and Hatred in Ireland

Again why so many subsistance farmers - 600 years of colonial occupation and intentional policy. If the Eastern farmers were allowed to export during the famine why the hell wouldn't they. If they kept the food in Ireland without any supports from Westminster they would likely have gone bankrupt. It all comes back to context and the apologists here want to wash over that context.

The English as a whole are not bad but they have two major faults:

-their ruling class have tended to be viciously callous of their citizens wellbeing, with the further away from been English the more callous they become

-the population as a whole are very ignorant of their own real history which allows them to go along with their ruling class even when it is against their own best interest and common decency

Go away out of that, the Irish breed like rabbits -> overpopulation as Bobby (I think) explained. As also pointed out, the Irish peasants relied on one crop. This was because they were handicapped by the twin evils of low intelligence in combination with a backward and ignorant culture unlike the English farmers. People don't like these hard truths so they try to blame the British rulers unfairly, contributing to the massive amount of "Anti Britsh Xenophobia and Hatred in Ireland" to this day. These rulers only ever tried to help the benighted natives of this land and bring them them railways, well fitting suits, flushing toilets, and common law and stuff. Thankfully despite the hatred stirred up by myths about the causes of the potato famine, some British still travel west and live here in the darkness to bring the sparks of civilisation and knowledge to us.

LOL blame people for being uneducated and poor while banning them from schools, and confiscating their land, banning their religion.

It interesting when see this in the world today in modern conflicts some people/countries are oblivious to their history of doing almost the same thing in the past.

Its a perverse situation that the poorer you are the more children you need to wrestle a living from the land. The smaller your holding the higher your efficiency needs to be and that requires hard manual labour. Ask anyone who grew up in these conditions - many were treated as little more than indentured slaves to their fathers. The bigger your holding and the wealthier you become - the smaller your family becomes. Large families are a logical response to subsistence conditions.

I have seen little to this in day to day life. The UK government sure but not the people.

You think its a problem that ireland doesnt honour the british forces?

Might be something to do with the fact they were shooting us dead here in the Republic up until 100 years ago, and killing unarmed civilians in the North in the 1970s and 80s.

Although considering a few years ago the Government were going to honour the treacherous scum in the RIC it wouldn't surprise me if they decide to do something like this in the near future.

I don't know, the Nazi comparison isn't far off. The Nazis are notable for aggressive unilateral military invasion, oppression based on ethnic and religious grounds and genocide. The British empire is also notable for these things.

The Nazis I suppose were more intense in a shorter period and more efficient but their ideology wasn't much different from British monarchists. A sense of righteousness in their domination of others based on their "superior" heredity, religion and culture.

Again this is old news as old Britannia is somewhere at the bottom of the ocean at this stage. And there is a caveat that it's not fair to judge history based on modern moral standards, if we did we would have the throw the french, Spanish, Portuguese, Belgians etc all in the same nazi pot.

It got the response it merited.

Maybe more like Inner Iceland, substituting the C for an R, but with trees and an economy like Denmark’s.