The next few years will provide us with a hard pill to swallow: Ireland has more in common with Britain than it does with Brussels
Patrick Kielty was a popular face on British television long before he arrived on The Late Late Show. Photograph: Andres Poveda/RTE/PA Wirebrought with it several by-products. Among them, Ireland’s increased fervour for the European Union was perhaps the least surprising. Thanks to, it is no wonder that the country embraced its friendlier European colleagues with open arms.
But perhaps this is more a marriage of convenience than many of us are willing to accept. Not that any of the above is incorrect, far from it. Ireland is patently a huge beneficiary of the European machine. The EU has been an obvious force for good on the fabric of Ireland, not least in thanks to the founding principles of the bloc: brokering, maintaining and fostering peace. And our attitude to the bloc has remained positive and unchanging in recent years.
But not all is rosy in the apparent Hiberno-EU fairytale. Ireland has to work out how to position itself in the EU, post-Brexit.
It is a cultural question more than anything. Swathes of Irish immigrants have long settled in London - whether that be those who came to Camden in the 1970s or the cohort of young Irish in Hackney now. The sweeping generalisations - that we don’t like the Brits or their so-called imperialist apologia - don’t really hold a candle to the actual evidence of Irish people making Britain their home.
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