Claire Walsh

Is racism becoming more acceptable in the UK? Anti-migrant protests are helping challenge ideas about the acceptability of prejudice.

Anti-migrant protests are helping challenge ideas about the acceptability of prejudice.

*the link to the Irish in British India was brought up by interviewee #CauveryMadhavan who was underlining the much more extensive roles the Irish had in India, with reference to the work of #KateO'Malley and #JaneOhlmeyer on Ireland and empire.

and supports the more comfortable myths that issues of contemporary racism are anomalies in our society.
To have any hope of dealing with this, we need to give up peddling this BS of perpetual Irish innocence.

Anyway, read this great article written by two of the best!

Perpetuating the innocence of Irish history as a way to perform allyship with people of the global majority who were also colonised obscures the realities of deeper histories of the Irish as the perpetrators of colonial violence (e.g. at Amritsar 1919) and racism (see work of @liamhogan.bsky.social)

British Empire in India as them 'helping to build and modernise India' as a way of drawing a comparison with Indian people coming to Ireland nowadays to 'help keep our health service on the road'.*

in counter to the problematically naive framing of these issues elsewhere in Irish media that blame it on a few 'bad apples'. E.g in a recent episode of the #ThePatKennyShow titled 'How Ireland and India have a lot in common as nations' where Pat simplified the involvement of Irish soldiers in the

Sharing a really important article here by #SuryaRoy and #RahulSambaraju covering recent attacks on the Indian community in Ireland and the longer histories of racism and denial in the country.

Good to see critical coverage on this by @irishexaminer.bsky.social