Archiving the “strange death of Europe,” as Douglas Murray put it, and the West more broadly, at the hands of the neoliberal technocracy.
The seasons came and went, the short animal lives fled by. A time came when there was no one who remembered the old days before the Rebellion, except Clover, Benjamin, Moses the raven, and a number of the pigs. —George Orwell, ‘Animal Farm’
Historical Ireland ‘not monocultural,’ claims The Guardian
You, as a deplorable bigot, might not be aware, as I wasn’t until The Guardian enlightened me, but Ireland was always a stronghold of globo-homo race communism dating back a century — at least.
The basis for the claim?
Sources familiar with a yet-unpublished 2026 Irish census.
Via The Guardian (emphasis added):
The first years of independent Ireland tend to be remembered, if at all, as a dreary monochrome of parochialism and conservatism.
After the blazing dramas of the 1916 rebellion and the 1919-1921 Anglo-Irish war, the infant state seemed to limp into a grey period of insularity, the dream of freedom giving way to anti-climax and drab conformity.
That perception is about to be shaken up with the release of the 1926 census in a landmark initiative that will make the personal details of almost the entire population from that era freely available exactly a century later.
The National Archives of Ireland has digitised the census returns, a vast dataset of more than 700,000 pages that give an intimate snapshot of the nation, and will post them online on 18 April, creating a research trove about the lives, occupations and, in some cases, secrets of 2.9 million people.
The findings will challenge perceptions that the new state – which had wrested independence from Britain but was not yet a republic – was a mono-ethnic backwater, said John Gibney, a Royal Irish Academy historian who worked on the project.
“Immigrants could be found in every corner of the Irish Free State at that time. It bucks the image we have of this dour, conservative society. It had conservative elements, but the 1920s were quite a globalised world. People engaged with popular culture, they travelled around, and the currents of that culture would have made their way to Ireland.”
The number of foreigners was small, but the census showed this smattering of British, American, French, Italian, German, Egyptian and other nationalities popping up around Ireland, said Gibney.
First of all, try as The Guardian might to skirt acknowledging reality, to the extent there was a substantial immigrant presence in Ireland in the early 20th century (there wasn’t, as acknowledged in the article itself, buried in the seventh paragraph), that immigrant population consisted nearly entirely of other European peoples from nearby countries — not Somalia, not India.
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Second of all, factuality notwithstanding, anyone who looks at it in context can see the point of this exercise is to try to normalize the “Ireland is a patchwork of immigrants, not the historic homeland of the Irish people” narrative in the service of tamping down native resistance to the ongoing replacement migration regime afoot — to exterminate the collective memory of an Ireland long gone.
Sometimes the older ones among them racked their dim memories and tried to determine whether in the early days of the Rebellion, when Jones's expulsion was still recent, things had been better or worse than now. They could not remember. There was nothing with which they could compare their present lives: they had nothing to go upon except Squealer's lists of figures, which invariably demonstrated that everything was getting better and better. The animals found the problem insoluble; in any case, they had little time for speculating on such things now. —George Orwell, ‘Animal Farm’
