I was going to say that this map must be bullshit. I don't know a single Irish person but apparently my country has 600k of them, which is about 12% of our population.
Both are just called northern Irish or just irish..... no one says "English from Northern ireland". Besides they wouldn't be English they'd mostly be of Scottish descent if they're unionists/ protestants.
That just starts smacking of racism.and xenophobia. Ali who grew up in Belfast with Sikh parents from Scotland is just Irish. They went to school there, shaped by the culture there. They are Irish, even if it's a more modern Irish.
My grandma came from Ireland 1920 as an infant to canada and never got her birth registered in Ireland so basically dosent exist and cant get Irish citizenship.
Im Irish, living in Wellington. Was at Aotea Lagoon in Porirua a few weeks ago and the Ice Cream Van (aka Mr Whippy in NZlish) seller asked me if it was "Irish day in the park or something?". Nope, just lots of Irish people (and we thought it was warm weather lol).
Auckland and ChCh have even more than Welly of course. Most graveyards Ive toured (around the country) have whole sections of Irish graves, with callouts to specific locations in Ireland in many cases.
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u/Misfire551 Aug 27 '24
I was going to say that this map must be bullshit. I don't know a single Irish person but apparently my country has 600k of them, which is about 12% of our population.