Dedicated to the systematic debunking of Christianity, from modern Christian activities and evangelism to the problematic and contradicting Bible, via rationalism and evidence-based counterarguments.
John W. Loftus
David Madison
The first folk in Ireland, not the Celts, arrived here millennia before YahwehJesus created the universe.
Since then, immigrants have always been problematic. Including the Celts.
And the more modern issue.
Emigration.
The phenomenon of migration from Ireland is recorded since the Early Middle Ages, but it can be quantified only from around 1700. Since then, between 9 and 10 million people born in Ireland have emigrated. That is more than the population of Ireland itself, which at its historical peak was 8.5 million on the eve of the Great Famine. The poorest of them went to Great Britain, especially Liverpool. Those who could afford it went further, including almost 5 million to the United States.
Illegal immigrants to the US, contribute to the system. Illegal immigrants to the UK and Ireland, don't.
Without experiencing it firsthand, it must be really hard to imagine what a shock and a strain it must be for a country like Ireland (both parts) with a history of emigration suddenly becoming a country of immigration. Especially problematic immigration in a small country with pre-existing fault-lines and unhealed wounds.
Most Christians carefully cherry-pick around passages like that.
Or invent outlandish apologetics to excuse YahwehJesus' role in the matter.