[lbo-talk] Those Evil Irish (question for Wendy L.)

Wendy Lyon wendy.lyon at gmail.com
Tue Mar 27 09:07:39 PDT 2007


On 3/27/07, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:


> What do mean about some people refering to Northern
> Ireland as a "tribal problem"?

I assume Jason's talking about the tendency to overlook the political causes of the conflict and just apply a simplistic 'ancient hatreds' analysis to it.


> (Holy Crap! If this Newsweek article can be believed,
> violence against immigrants in NI has increased 20
> times since 1996.)

The caveat being that there were hardly any immigrants in Ireland (north or south) in 1996.



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