A recent soccer match between Ireland and England has sparked debate about the lingering lack of respect between the two nations, rooted in the island's partition in 1921.
Dublin-based English academic Mike Cronin says atmosphere at recent Ireland - England soccer match highlights lack of respect for ‘the other’ built into partition of island. Mike Cronin: 'I used to go to Millwall games ... but, you know, Lizzie’s in a Box...it was fairly brutal,' says the historian of September's Ireland v England match in Dublin.
Photograph: Chris Maddalonifootball club Millwall, best known in the 1970s and 80s for their “No One Likes Us and We Don’t Care”-chanting supporters, and Irish unity rarely feature in the same sentence, but Boston College academic Mike Cronin has somehow managed it.: “I was there, and I was in the Irish section. And I did not open my mouth for 90 minutes because I actually felt unsafe as an English person.” Dublin-resident Cronin is no snowflake: “I used to go to Millwall games, for God’s sake. But, you know, Lizzie’s in a Box, and all that kind of thing. It was fairly brutal.”50 people to watch in 2025: From film and music to arts, activism, sport and moreCronan, who was born in Rugby, Warwickshire, and fellow historian Mark Duncan have written Revolutionary Times – Ireland 1913-23: The Forging of a Nation. The Lansdowne Road experience holds lessons, he believes: “We can sit there and say, ‘Oh, it’s just fun and it’s just the next-door neighbours,’ or say that ‘it’s just a bit silliness around a soccer match. Nobody died.’” However, Cronin argues that the atmosphere at the match holds deeper clues, since for him it highlights the lack of respect for ‘the other’ than was built into the partition of the island in 1921. “My point, to use a sporting analogy, is that the end of the War of Independence was a score draw. Everybody shook hands and went back to their own corners without changing a single way they thought. The Free State became a Catholic nationalist state and Northern Ireland became a unionist Protestant stat
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