I say even the fourth generation legal ones go back :) jk!
Making up news.
the irish times is a leftist rag...
Can you even imagine having the gall to think you could influence a foreign election process by expressing concern over 50,000 Americans living anywhere illegally? I can’t. I’m surprised Irish do. It appears that it’s all about the gimme for them, too. Pity. I remember when they were a bit more of an upright, self-determined people.
Finally!! Someone is asking the hard questions about those darn Irish.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-irish-slave-trade-the-forgotten-white-slaves/31076
History forgets about the Irish slaves.
Friends that visited Ireland during GW’s terms were astonished at all of the anger from the Irish about our President.
But the last eight years not a peep from the Irish over the reign of Obama.
I am 100% Irish, son of an Irish sharecropper who emigrated to the US after WWII, dual citizen. I love Ireland. That said, if you are Irish and living illegally in the US, you have to go home to the country where you legally reside. You are a criminal here. You have your choice of Ireland and many countries in Europe due to the EU agreement. There is no war in Ireland, no genocide, no terrorism, so you are not a refugee.
I wasn't allowed to buy a beer the whole time I was there.
Everyone wanted to be near me and talk to me.
Great sense of pride by all....I'm an American AND Irish.
JFK died on my 20th birthday.
This is the inevitable evolution of the victim culture. Since everyone has seen what power there is in being a victim, everyone wants to cash in. It’s cultural dis-integration, the very opposite of unity. And it’s also a consequence of the Big Lie called “diversity.”
I was wrong, it was/is the Germans.
The “shock and dismay” may be a fear that Trump’s policies will entice Silicone Valley Companies along with Big Pharma back from Ireland where they reside in abundance.
The Kennedys, virtually all Irishmen in New England, and the modern Irish, make me ashamed to be Irish.
Over a century ago, the Catholic hierarchy and the laity threw themselves into the arms of the party of slavery, the KKK, and Jim Crow, and they have largely continued to snuggle in those arms as that party became the party of baby-murder and sodomy.
What does one’s country of heritage have to do with one’s opinions?
For the feeble-minded: not all people of Irish descent think alike on all matters.
Resolution for the new year: don’t be stupid.
Some of this really is a generational thing. My one uncle was (before he passed away) was Irish and strongly identified as such. Despite the Dems standing for pretty much everything he was against (abortion, anti-gun, gay rights, the Sexual Revolution, etc.), he absolutely hated Republicans and kept voting for Dems. He had 5 kids (my cousins) and all but one of them are strong Republicans.
Irish?
His mom’s name was McLeod.
Scottish.
This Irish-American voted for Trump.
As did just about his entire family (save for one NeverTrumper).
On the whole though the Irish here vote Dem. Too much brainwashing from union newsletters.
"With respect to our State and federal governments, I do not think their relations correctly understood by foreigners. They generally suppose the former subordinate to the latter. But this is not the case. They are co-ordinate departments of one simple and integral whole." --Thomas Jefferson to John Cartwright, 1824.
So Ireland, and all other countries, probably sees POTUS as a prime minister or king like low-information USA voters do.
But POTUS actually has much less constitutional authority to decide domestic policy than prime ministers and kings do imo.
In fact, the Congress has needed to propose amendments to the Constitution to justify at least some of the treaties that the feds have agreed to.
“In giving to the President and Senate a power to make treaties, the Constitution meant only to authorize them to carry into effect, by way of treaty, any powers they might constitutionally exercise.” —Thomas Jefferson: The Anas, 1793.
“Surely the President and Senate cannot do by treaty what the whole government is interdicted from doing in any way.” — Thomas Jefferson: Parliamentary Manual, 1812 .
"2. Insofar as Art. 2(11) of the Uniform Code of Military Justice provides for the military trial of civilian dependents accompanying the armed forces in foreign countries, it cannot be sustained as legislation which is "necessary and proper" to carry out obligations of the United States under international agreements made with those countries, since no agreement with a foreign nation can confer on Congress or any other branch of the Government power which is free from the restraints of the Constitution [emphasis added] .” — Reid v. Covert, 1956.
Sicilian and Irish women are emotional time bombs.