Ireland’s Broad Movement for ‘Narrow Nationalism’

On a date commemorating the anniversary of the Easter Monday Rising of 1916, an absolutely enormous anti-immigration protest was held in Dublin at the Garden of Remembrance, with a smaller counterprotest meeting it. Ireland has been playing through the greatest hits of European immigration politics, but with the speed turned up to 5x.

Ireland’s immigration issue is very different from America’s. In America, immigration is deeply connected with the rise of a subset of the middle class into upper middle-class life. Immigration provides nannies, housekeepers, landscapers, and builders, and keeps restaurants cheaper than they otherwise would be.