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“In Ireland, ancestry means everything. Yet to an increasing number of Irish people — immigrants and the children of immigrants — Irish ancestry remains painfully elusive. In May this harsh fact confronted Una-Minh Kavanagh [Above] on the streets of Dublin. A 22-year-old woman who was adopted by an Irish woman from her native Vietnam when she was just six weeks old, Ms. Kavanagh is thoroughly Irish, down to her thick County Kerry accent and her mastery of the Irish language, which only 10 percent of the country speaks fluently.”
“But the group of Irish teenagers who accosted her that afternoon only saw her Asian features. In the middle of her capital city, they grabbed her and shook her head, called her a “chink” and spat on her face. Bystanders gathered, but no one stepped in to help.”
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“Ireland, like the rest of the world, has changed dramatically with the rise in global migration. Seventeen percent of Irish citizens were born outside of the country. Yet the Irish have been markedly slow — politically, socially and legally — to recognize foreign-born citizens as fellow Irish men and women.”
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“A June report released by the Economic and Social Research Institute, a Dublin think tank, found that 22 percent of Irish nationals, polled in 2010, thought that immigrants from “poor non-E.U. countries” should not be allowed into Ireland, compared with just 6 percent in 2002. The study’s sample of 2,000 people reveals that Irish views on immigration are among the most negative in the European Union.”
“And, in a report issued in August, the Immigrant Council of Ireland, a nonprofit organization, said that it was fielding five times as many reports of “serious racist incidents” than a year ago — from an average of four a month in 2012 to more than 50 incidents in just the previous 10 weeks.”
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“It is hard to imagine how equality can be attained when people born on the island to migrant parents do not have an automatic right to citizenship, while third-generation Irish-Americans are frequently granted citizenship rights based solely on their distant ancestral connection.”
Some Irish Need Not Apply (New York Times)
Previously: Humiliating Una
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Such is the power of Heisenberg that, when ‘Granite State’ – the penultimate episode of the series – referenced a fictional article in The New York Times by Andrew Ross Sorkin concerning Walter White’s link with Gray Matter Industries, Andrew Ross Sorkin of the actual New York Times wrote the ‘article’.
Little known except to a small cadre of industry insiders, the Schwartzes have been scrambling in recent weeks to keep a long-running secret from being revealed. Gray Matter’s stock has sunk over the last week as speculation has mounted that the company could be tied to a drug kingpin in Albuquerque who has made national headlines: Walter White, the former chemistry teacher turned international methamphetamine dealer known as “Heisenberg.”
READ ON: Breaking Bad: The Grey Matter Of Charity (New York Times)
SPOILER ALERT: Boing Boing’s review of ‘Granite State’.
…Ireland continued to struggle, too. The proportion of households without a working adult was the among highest in the European Union, and yet the government, under pressure from its creditors, undertook a series of cuts that reduced aid to the poorest, including child support payments. At the same time it increased property taxes.
Europe’s Debt Crisis: No Relief on the Horizon (Suzanne Daly, New York Times)
Pictures by Adam Ferguson for The New York Times
Nick O’Neill dissects how Forbes was able to outdo the New York Times by sexing up a headline. “How Companies Learn Your Secrets” just didn’t set the internet alight like “How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did”.
As of the writing of this story, the New York Times article has 60 likes and shares on Facebook versus 12,902 which the Forbes article has. The Forbes article also has a mind boggling 680,000 page views, a number that can literally make a writer’s career.
[via @irishstu]
Previously
How Kenneth O’Halloran’s “breathtaking photographs of the Aran Islands” edged out Mitch Epstein’s “coolly romantic” photographs of trees around Manhattan to the cover of last week’s New York Times Magazine here.
Can one bank (that’d be Anglo) bring down Ireland? Asks the paper this morning.
And, because they don’t know, they ask: how could this have even been possible?
“Ireland was also the country that took the most direct route in tackling the problem [Banking colapse], by recognizing upfront the bad loans of its devastated banks and transferring them to government ledgers.
“Both the United States and Britain avoided such a move by taking stakes in their troubled banks and, in the case of Britain, insuring their worst-performing loans. Now the Irish government’s strategy is being called into question as its credit rating suffers and its borrowing costs resume their upward trajectory.”
Thank heavens nobody outside of New York reads the New York Times. It’s basically a local paper. Like the Evening Echo in Cork. If it had won 104 Pulitzer Prizes.
Bearded, Guinness-sipping, American tourist writes about Ireland. Should I care?
He teaches at Princeton. People listen to him. He has a Nobel Prize for Economics.
Kissinger has a Nobel prize for Peace.
He predicted the world-wide recession back in December 2006.
David McDreamy saw it coming back in the 80s.
In June, Krugman asked – vis a vis Ireland’s savage cuts and Spain’s lack of same – does austerity really impress the markets. His answer then was no.
So he’s changed his mind? Not very noble. Hur.
If by change you mean he’s more convinced than ever that our self flagellation was pointless then yes.
Oh.
He’s compared the 10-year bond yield (don’t ask) of both countries. Guess what? Spain – the biggest messer in the class – is tearing us – the hard-working, arse-puckering toady – a new one.
Meaning?
Austerity be damned
Does he have graphs to prove this? Not pretendy ones from that website?
Yes.
Is there a devastating quote from the article that will silence me and end this conversation?
“…since austerians were claiming bond market approval as a sign of its policy success, it is worth pointing out that dutiful Ireland looks as if it’s entering a runaway debt spiral, while malingering Spain is looking considerably better.”