The slogans ‘Ireland is Full’ and ‘Stop the new plantation of Ireland’ are comically historically illiterate
Ellis Island, in Upper New York Bay, was the gateway for millions of immigrants to the United States. Demographers highlight that in the 21-year period 1850 to 1870, emigration from Ireland was more than two and a half million people. There were further periods of emigration, especially in the 1980s . Photograph by Flying Camera/Archive Photos/Getty Images
O’Brien had asked the essayists to “give it straight from the shoulder” and MacMahon obliged by recounting stories of clerical control and denunciation of “company keeping”. It was a particularly brave thing for MacMahon to do given his position as a national schoolteacher whose management was clerical. The essays were subsequently serialised in a Sunday newspaper.
There were further periods of emigration, especially in the 1980s , but from the mid-1990s Ireland came to host a larger proportion of immigrants than many other western European states; by 2011, 17 per cent of the population had been born abroad. Today, extreme Irish “nationalists” see such a populous Ireland as a grave threat to national purity. Their slogans “Ireland is Full” or “Stop the new plantation of Ireland” are comically historically illiterate, but it is no laughing matter given the dangerous hands holding such placards.
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