Anyone else experience Irish hate today?

How can you be Irish if your Dad isn't?

Being both Italian and Irish (among other things), I've been on the receiving end of hatred for both. Fortunately though, I don't really care enough to be bothered by it. Life's too short to be so preoccupied by such silly things.

That is an ignorant and stupid remark, it clearly shows that you know nothing of Ireland's contribution to the world. Here are some people for you.

Ernest Shackleton: Explorer, first man to reach the South Pole

Arthur Wellesley "Duke of Wellington": Irish Soldier and politician who became Prime minister of Britain and also defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo

Bram Stoker: Novelist who wrote Dracula

James Joyce: Novelist and poet, wrote Ulysess

Oscar Wilde: Novelist and poet, wrote Dorian Gray

W.B. Yeats: Writer and Poet,

Jonathan Swift: Novelist, wrote Gulliver's Travels

George Boole: Mathematician, invented Boolean Algebra

Robert Boyle: Invented Boyle's Law, father of modern chemistry

George Stooney: Physicist, discovered electrons

John Tyndall: Phyicist, discovered the Greenhouse Effect, colarescence, Tyndall Effect, invented the nephelometer and turbidimeter, father of the ultramicroscope, invented the fireman's respirator, thermophoresis

George Gabriel Stokes: Physicist, Mathematician, created Stoke's Law for fluid dynamics, discovered fluorescence

Saint Brendan: missionary and navigator

Columbanus: Missionary, founded countless monastery's across Europe in the DArk Ages that became bastions of education

Vergilius of Salzburg: missionary and astronomer

John Stewart Bell: Quantum Physicist, created Bell's Theorem

Jocelyn Bell Burnell: Astrophysicist and noble prize winner, discovered pulsars

Nicholas Callan: Scientist, invented induction coil

Aeneas Coffey: Inventor of the column still.

Harry Ferguson: Inventor and engineer, created modern tractor

Ernest Walton: Physicist and Nobel laureate, first person in history to split the atom.

CS. Lewis: Novelist, wrote Chronicles of Narnia

Louis Brennan: Engineer, invented first guided missile

John Philip Holland: Engineer, developed the first submarine to be formally commissioned by the U.S. Navy

James Hoban: Architect, designed the White House

And that is just a few so put in your pipe and smoke it.




Saint Kilian: missionary

Laurence Sterne: novelist

How many times have you been to Ireland?

Your personal history is a perfect example of intra-race hate, when people who outwardly resemble each other exhibit extreme animus and even hate. In our over-heated politically correct obsessed country of over-emphasized and deliberately manufactured race friction between whites, Hispanics, and blacks, everyone forgets that historically, more people died at the hands of people from a similar race or ethnic background.

A person in China would be doubly perplexed at your father raging at Irish people. The Chinese person would not understand a white man hating white people, any more than your father would understand an Asian person killing another Asian person out of ethnic hate. The 1992 civil war in the former Yugoslavia was a horrendous example of white-on-white hate killing. The atrocities of black African-on-black African killings in Africa continue today. Even in the USA, a young black American male is 23 times more likely to be slain by a fellow black American male than from a white man. Yet everybody appears to be deliberately blind to same race/same ethnic background animosity and violence. It has to be white on black to get media attention today, and I didn't write, black on white, which doesn't get media attention because of political correctness and white left-wing guilt obsession.

That all said, my final point is that I read a lot of history and am aware of the prejudice that Irish people faced in Ireland and then in early America. But still the Irish have triumphed.

Never experienced it at all

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I've experienced "Irish hate", in a way. My family is Asian and every time we go to our predominantly Irish Catholic church, you Irishmen and women refuse to shake our hands. It never fails. So much for exchanging the sign of peace! In fairness, though, I'm talking about Irish-Americans. The Irish I've met who are actually from Ireland have been friendlier.