A country that suffered from colonization for 800 years

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Even though Ireland is a European country, it has been around for 800 years.

It was a new colony of Britain.

Until the 16th century, Ireland was ruled by the Kingdom of England, but there was some degree of self-government by the native Irish nobility.

However, in 1534, Henry VIII invaded Ireland again, forced the Anglican people to move to Ireland, and changed the form of direct rule over the Irish by the British, thus beginning the history of colonialism.

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Ireland was a country where Catholicism was the main religion after the Great Pagan War, but it was oppressed by Britain and forced to convert to Anglicanism. Although independent Ireland adopted Catholicism as its main religion, conflicts between Protestants and Catholics who came from England still occur in Northern Ireland.

From the movie The Wind That Shakes the Barley Field

Ireland originally had its own language, but Britain almost eliminated the native language through constant rule and forced the country to use English in everyday life. Currently, Ireland is pursuing a policy of reviving Gaelic, requiring public institutions to write in Gaelic and conducting language restoration research consistently. Despite this, only about 40% of people who still speak Gaelic as their native language, despite making up 2% of the population, can use Celtic as a second language.

In Ireland, group gatherings of Irish people were not permitted until modern times. If even a small number of people gathered, the British police arrested them and did not allow even the slightest gathering.

*It is known that in Korea, due to the suffering suffered during colonial rule, in Ireland, Garda is used instead of Police.

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However, after researching the content in English, it is said that the names of public institutions are written in Gaelic simply for the Irish government’s plan to revive the Gaelic language. In Irish, the word Piln already exists, meaning police. Even at Dublin Airport, the word police is often used right now.

Britain plundered a lot of grain during its rule over Ireland, and eventually the Irish adopted potatoes as their staple food. However, the potato plague that started in the United States in 1845 also affected Ireland, and at that time, as many as 1 million Irish people died in the great famine. From this point on, the full-fledged Irish independence movement began to sprout.

One of the things that colonial modernizationists insist on is that the ruling country modernized the colony by building railroads, etc., but if you look at the British-Irish relationship, you can see that this is not true at all. Britain did not provide any infrastructure to Ireland, and Ireland only began modernization, including building roads, after gaining independence from Britain in the 1920s.

Even if the Irish immigrated to other countries, they were not treated as Europeans. In the United States, they were given the derogatory title ‘white black’ and treated similarly to Colored. Irish people’s unique red hair was looked down on in Western media, with the prejudice that they were hot-tempered and violent.

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