Non-white indigenous peoples are not expected to make detailed genetic and historical analyses to justify being indigenous. There is a cohort of left-wing pundits trying to convince the public that the people of Europe were always just a perpetual stream of migrants with no identity, to justify mass migration and indigenous disempowerment. If they win, indigenous Europeans disappear. The priority for indigenous European activists should be to awake their peoples' indigenous identity. Whoever wins this battle of identity wins the war.
The first electric-and-gasoline-powered submarines were invented in America by John Philip Holland, a native of County Clare, in the late 19th century. Holland submarines were quickly adopted by the US Navy, the German Kriegsmarine, the Japanese Imperial Navy, and the Royal Navy. Paradoxically, much of Holland's research and development had been funded by Fenians hoping to free Ireland from Britain by sinking RN warships. Holland founded the Electric Boat Company of Groton, CT, later a division of the defense contractor General Dynamics.
Astute overview. I think the Pale is a fascinating historical model to understand imperial central command on foreign territory. Dublin and its surrounding area were in a sense always the hub for a foreign occupier. In a way, Israel has a similar role in the wider Middle East. Despite its small territory, it punches above its weight as a launchpad for imperial influence.
Christianity did not first arrive in Ireland in the 5th century with St Patrick, any more than it arrived in Britain in the 6th century through Patrick's disciple Columba of Iona, or Augustine of Canterbury, the Apostle to Kent. Christianity had reached Britain by the 3rd century at the latest, in Roman times. Similarly there is evidence of it Ireland by the 3rd or 4th centuries A.D., probably via Egyptian monks writing in Greek. Connie Marshner gives a number of sources for this in her recent book, 'Monastery and High Cross: The Forgotten Eastern Roots of Early Irish Christianity.' (Sophia Institute Press, 2024.)
Great job Keith, history writing excellent.
Non-white indigenous peoples are not expected to make detailed genetic and historical analyses to justify being indigenous. There is a cohort of left-wing pundits trying to convince the public that the people of Europe were always just a perpetual stream of migrants with no identity, to justify mass migration and indigenous disempowerment. If they win, indigenous Europeans disappear. The priority for indigenous European activists should be to awake their peoples' indigenous identity. Whoever wins this battle of identity wins the war.
All of this and Ireland still doesn’t have a single submarine
The first electric-and-gasoline-powered submarines were invented in America by John Philip Holland, a native of County Clare, in the late 19th century. Holland submarines were quickly adopted by the US Navy, the German Kriegsmarine, the Japanese Imperial Navy, and the Royal Navy. Paradoxically, much of Holland's research and development had been funded by Fenians hoping to free Ireland from Britain by sinking RN warships. Holland founded the Electric Boat Company of Groton, CT, later a division of the defense contractor General Dynamics.
Astute overview. I think the Pale is a fascinating historical model to understand imperial central command on foreign territory. Dublin and its surrounding area were in a sense always the hub for a foreign occupier. In a way, Israel has a similar role in the wider Middle East. Despite its small territory, it punches above its weight as a launchpad for imperial influence.
Christianity did not first arrive in Ireland in the 5th century with St Patrick, any more than it arrived in Britain in the 6th century through Patrick's disciple Columba of Iona, or Augustine of Canterbury, the Apostle to Kent. Christianity had reached Britain by the 3rd century at the latest, in Roman times. Similarly there is evidence of it Ireland by the 3rd or 4th centuries A.D., probably via Egyptian monks writing in Greek. Connie Marshner gives a number of sources for this in her recent book, 'Monastery and High Cross: The Forgotten Eastern Roots of Early Irish Christianity.' (Sophia Institute Press, 2024.)
Look at the jaws of that skull. How much we've devolved and how ugly we've become.
Pity that the differences between English and British are not made more clear.