The New Irish: Difference between revisions

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'[[The New Irish']] is the current politically correct term for recent immigrants into Ireland (replacing the confusing and possibly offensive 'Non-Irish Nationals'). It generally does not cover longstanding native minorities like [[Irish Travellers]] or the small but distinctive Irish Jewish community.

Up until very recently Ireland was primarily a nation of ''e''migration, a country you left rather than came to (an exception being made for the sizable Ulster Scot population in the North). This led to a certain homogenyhomogeneity: the Irish population was almost entirely white and almost entirely Christian. Ethnic minorities were mostly students or involved in the restaurant trade and rarely showed up on Irish TV or in Irish films.