I’m surprised the article didn’t bring up Westminster legalizing abortion in Northern Ireland a few years back. The DUP largely condemned the move as sidestepping Stormont and meddling in Northern Ireland’s internal affairs. Sinn Fein, on the other hand, applauded the move.
The irony of Nationalists applauding the British Parliament for legalizing the killing of unborn babies in Northern Ireland, violating Stormont’s authority and violating the spirit (if not the letter) of the Good Friday Agreement. Something utterly unthinkable just a generation ago.
Fascinating read. If you replaced "Northern Ireland" with "Quebec", you would have a description of Québécois nationalism — up to the year 2020.
In 1968, the independence movement came together in the Parti Québécois as a coalition of right and left nationalists, but the latter soon gained dominance because their ideological "framing" was more in line with the zeitgeist. This coalition fell apart from the 1990s onward for two reasons:
- The left abandoned its old working-class concerns and embraced those of the new American left. The old left felt particularly estranged by the growing emphasis on LGBTQ and the increasing vilification of French Canadians as "settler colonialists", even though their history in North America goes back four centuries and even though their ancestors were allies of the Amerindian peoples.
- Even in power, the Parti Québécois was unable or unwilling to deal with the worsening demographic crisis. On the one hand, fertility rates were falling well below replacement. On the other, immigration was rising.
From around 2000 onward, there was a struggle between left and right nationalists for control of the party. The latter faction won in 2020 with the election of Paul St-Pierre Plamondon as leader. This happened largely because the rank and file "vomited" the new left. A point came when people started saying "enough is enough."
The Parti Québécois will likely win the next election in October, and there will then be a referendum on independence.
What will happen next? Time will tell. I personally believe that the nationalists will win the referendum and that this will cause Canada to collapse like a house of cards. There is very little holding the country together at this point.
But if this scenario does happen, my country will become a rather chaotic place — to put it mildly.
It should also be mentioned that SF pursued third worldist politics and mass immigration as a demographic instrument partly to unseat the Protestant majority in NI and (potentially) effect unification by outvoting their opponents.
I'm very interested to see how the situation in Canada develops, going by your description.
Could you provide a source for the first point? I've seen this sort of accusation made against Ted Kennedy, i.e., he pushed for the Hart-Celler Act of 1965 as a way of sticking it to the WASPs.
Makes sense. Quebec and Ireland were ground zero for liberal resistance due to their Catholicism. Then they sold that out for the sexual revolution and modernism and now the degeneracy of their people are catching up with them due to their birth rates being low. If both had kept the integralism of their ancestors they’d actually have a chance but instead they are weak due to embrace of contraception, abortion, sodomy, etc.
The other so-called Nationalist movements in the British Isles have also been subverted by the same liberal progressive framing. Inversion is the rule in our politics. Leftists deliberately ride the coat tails of these movements using legitimate concerns as an ‘in’ before turning all to shit.
Great article, and somewhat downbeat in its conclusions. Could this change as the ethnic percentage rises? I wonder where Ulster Unionism will go as the demographic shift in England is much further "ahead" than in Northern Ireland. I mean, in the 2050s the Unionists will still be calling for British rule to continue, while the "British citizens" who are ultimately in charge in London will mainly be Africans and Asians. The whole concept of Britishness is being unpicked. Ultimately, the same is happening to Irishness, but the trajectory for a majority non-white south is much slower - maybe by the 2070s or 2080s? Not forgetting that a large percentage of migrants in the south are actually Poles and Lithuanians?
The thing is, this history makes sense to me, but I'm left with the feeling that you think Sinn Fein's successful pacification of its old militias is... a bad thing?
You should read your good friend Eric Striker's article on this matter. He goes all out in minimising the ulstermen riots, glazing the IRA and saying that the rioters wear masks and thus are more prone to infiltration or being government agents.
I’m surprised the article didn’t bring up Westminster legalizing abortion in Northern Ireland a few years back. The DUP largely condemned the move as sidestepping Stormont and meddling in Northern Ireland’s internal affairs. Sinn Fein, on the other hand, applauded the move.
The irony of Nationalists applauding the British Parliament for legalizing the killing of unborn babies in Northern Ireland, violating Stormont’s authority and violating the spirit (if not the letter) of the Good Friday Agreement. Something utterly unthinkable just a generation ago.
Thank you for the explanation. As someone of Irish Catholic heritage, I find this a source of profound collective shame
Fascinating read. If you replaced "Northern Ireland" with "Quebec", you would have a description of Québécois nationalism — up to the year 2020.
In 1968, the independence movement came together in the Parti Québécois as a coalition of right and left nationalists, but the latter soon gained dominance because their ideological "framing" was more in line with the zeitgeist. This coalition fell apart from the 1990s onward for two reasons:
- The left abandoned its old working-class concerns and embraced those of the new American left. The old left felt particularly estranged by the growing emphasis on LGBTQ and the increasing vilification of French Canadians as "settler colonialists", even though their history in North America goes back four centuries and even though their ancestors were allies of the Amerindian peoples.
- Even in power, the Parti Québécois was unable or unwilling to deal with the worsening demographic crisis. On the one hand, fertility rates were falling well below replacement. On the other, immigration was rising.
From around 2000 onward, there was a struggle between left and right nationalists for control of the party. The latter faction won in 2020 with the election of Paul St-Pierre Plamondon as leader. This happened largely because the rank and file "vomited" the new left. A point came when people started saying "enough is enough."
The Parti Québécois will likely win the next election in October, and there will then be a referendum on independence.
What will happen next? Time will tell. I personally believe that the nationalists will win the referendum and that this will cause Canada to collapse like a house of cards. There is very little holding the country together at this point.
But if this scenario does happen, my country will become a rather chaotic place — to put it mildly.
It should also be mentioned that SF pursued third worldist politics and mass immigration as a demographic instrument partly to unseat the Protestant majority in NI and (potentially) effect unification by outvoting their opponents.
I'm very interested to see how the situation in Canada develops, going by your description.
Could you provide a source for the first point? I've seen this sort of accusation made against Ted Kennedy, i.e., he pushed for the Hart-Celler Act of 1965 as a way of sticking it to the WASPs.
Unfortunately I can't dig out the exact quote that I read online, but it seems like a broadly safe inference from current rhetoric:
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2026/04/05/biggest-barrier-to-united-ireland-is-the-government-says-sinn-feins-mary-lou-mcdonald/
Makes sense. Quebec and Ireland were ground zero for liberal resistance due to their Catholicism. Then they sold that out for the sexual revolution and modernism and now the degeneracy of their people are catching up with them due to their birth rates being low. If both had kept the integralism of their ancestors they’d actually have a chance but instead they are weak due to embrace of contraception, abortion, sodomy, etc.
However, Québécois (and Anglo angryphones) are not so into celebrating, or at least tolerating, murderers, which is nice
A wonderful and enlightening article. Thank you for explaining something that a lot of us think we know about, but don’t actually know about.
Good article, I'd like to hear more about your thoughts on the North, particular the future of it and where it is going.
The other so-called Nationalist movements in the British Isles have also been subverted by the same liberal progressive framing. Inversion is the rule in our politics. Leftists deliberately ride the coat tails of these movements using legitimate concerns as an ‘in’ before turning all to shit.
Especially Plaid Cymru.
Good article.
Great article, and somewhat downbeat in its conclusions. Could this change as the ethnic percentage rises? I wonder where Ulster Unionism will go as the demographic shift in England is much further "ahead" than in Northern Ireland. I mean, in the 2050s the Unionists will still be calling for British rule to continue, while the "British citizens" who are ultimately in charge in London will mainly be Africans and Asians. The whole concept of Britishness is being unpicked. Ultimately, the same is happening to Irishness, but the trajectory for a majority non-white south is much slower - maybe by the 2070s or 2080s? Not forgetting that a large percentage of migrants in the south are actually Poles and Lithuanians?
Great work
An informative post!
Bring back the black and tans
Adams was always an internationalist.
The thing is, this history makes sense to me, but I'm left with the feeling that you think Sinn Fein's successful pacification of its old militias is... a bad thing?
So Catholics in NI have no political choice whatsoever. It’s the ‘so extremely left it’s unrecognisable SF’ or nothing
It was a psyop
You should read your good friend Eric Striker's article on this matter. He goes all out in minimising the ulstermen riots, glazing the IRA and saying that the rioters wear masks and thus are more prone to infiltration or being government agents.