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Irish Nationalist History & Politics Channel, with a side dish of shitposting. Use of the channel has changed since August 2020 but name stays cause its funny.

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Archiving Irish Diversity Stuff (AIDS)
An unintentionally based article https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/jewish-fenians-and-anti-semites-the-jewish-role-in-the-irish-fight-for-freedom-1.4526074
>A further complication for nationalist Ireland was that many of Dublin’s Jews were ‘very firmly unionist to begin with’

>A number of successful Irish Jews were Freemasons and mixed socially with Protestant unionists.
Archiving Irish Diversity Stuff (AIDS)
An unintentionally based article https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/jewish-fenians-and-anti-semites-the-jewish-role-in-the-irish-fight-for-freedom-1.4526074
While early 20th-century Irish nationalists identified with the Boers, Dublin’s Jews were seen as pro-British in this period, leading to some inter-communal tension. Indeed prior to the Great War many Jews regarded the United Kingdom as a haven from persecution.

As Bethel Solomons, a medical student in Dublin during the revolutionary period explained, though he ‘loved Ireland … Great Britain tries to be a just and tolerant nation and is the safest place in the world for those who are likely to be victims of intolerance … especially people of my own Jewish race’.
Archiving Irish Diversity Stuff (AIDS)
An unintentionally based article https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/jewish-fenians-and-anti-semites-the-jewish-role-in-the-irish-fight-for-freedom-1.4526074
''Jews had been a negative influence, because (1) they are, and will remain, aliens, in most countries; (2) their codes of honour and morals are not Christian; (3) that in business and otherwise, they act together, throughout a country (and even from one nation to another, at times) like Freemasons; (4) that a benefactor to their poor can influence their votes, through their Rabbi; (5) that, as an Orangeman’s religion is commonly hatred of the Pope, so the Debased Jews, when they lose their faith, retain a racial antagonism to Christians.''

- George Noble Plunkett, father of Joseph Plunkett and was Dáil minister for foreign affairs, text was from a a long letter to Éamon de Valera
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He went on to claim that Jews and Freemasons together were responsible for the Great War, that both now dominated France and were seeking to destroy the papacy. In Britain, Plunkett claimed, the press was ‘largely owned and controlled by Jews’ hence its ‘dealing with Irish affairs is abominable. It is corrupt through want of principle, no less than from an anxiety for profit.
Plunkett asserted that the ‘Jewish interest in England is capitalist, the Jews are the “sweaters”.’ He also suggested that Italy ‘has been a tool in their hands. They publish pornographic journals, for a bad Jew shows his racial hatred of Christians by corrupting them.’ In Austria too ‘the Jews got a good grip on the press’. The Romanian historian and nationalist activist Nicolae Iorga had given Plunkett a ‘painful account … of the state of slavery to which the Jews had brought his countrymen.’
Like many radicals at the turn of the century Arthur Griffith blamed Jews for the war in South Africa. He also asserted:

‘no thoughtful Irishman or Irishwoman can view without apprehension the continuous influx of Jews into Ireland … what is known as Anti-Semitism on the Continent had its origin … in a very natural detestation of business knavery, and a very natural desire to defend the weak against the unscrupulous’.
Speaking at a commemoration for Roger Casement in Co Kerry during August 1917, Easter week veteran and IRB president Thomas Ashe described how Casement had worked so that

'‘Ireland might be perserved from the tyranny of the Jews and moneylenders of London who are at present running the World War.’'

When Ashe died while on hunger strike shortly afterwards, his speech was widely distributed in pamphlet form.

You can read his full speech here
After 1919 republican diplomats sometimes expressed hostility towards Jews or sensed hostility from Jews to the Irish cause. Reporting on Spain during September 1921 Robert Brennan described how the ‘Liberal and Jewish papers seem to be pro-British.’

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for the Dáil in Germany, Nancy de Paor claimed that ‘the bulk of the middle-class Berlin papers at the time was in the hands of Jews who would not lift a finger for us … the Jews in Germany always supported Britain’.
‘everywhere Jews and Masons were united against us in foreign press on the side of England’.

Sinn Féin TD George Gavan Duffy to secretary of state at the Vatican
Michael Keogh, a member of Roger Casement’s Brigade, was in Munich during 1918. He described Kurt Eisner, the Jewish head of the Bavarian revolutionary government as being ‘of the Shylock breed’ and claimed that Eisner had refused to aid veterans of the Casement Brigade because they had been ‘dupes’ of the Kaiser. (Keogh also claimed to have served with the Freikorps and to have saved the life of one Adolf Hitler during a riot).
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Archiving Irish Diversity Stuff (AIDS)
Michael Keogh, a member of Roger Casement’s Brigade, was in Munich during 1918. He described Kurt Eisner, the Jewish head of the Bavarian revolutionary government as being ‘of the Shylock breed’ and claimed that Eisner had refused to aid veterans of the Casement…
Michael Keogh served on both sides of World War I. He landed in a German POW camp where Keogh had befriended Roger Casement in the US years earlier, and Casement now sought him out to head an Irish Brigade of prisoners willing to switch sides (as Casement was to be involved in the 1916 with the hope of German landing in Ireland).

Privately the Germans treated Casement’s Brigade as an Irish joke, but they were happy to play him along for the nuisance value he could deliver back in Ireland.
Archiving Irish Diversity Stuff (AIDS)
Michael Keogh served on both sides of World War I. He landed in a German POW camp where Keogh had befriended Roger Casement in the US years earlier, and Casement now sought him out to head an Irish Brigade of prisoners willing to switch sides (as Casement…
But Casement’s career as a gun runner was short-lived and after his execution in 1916 the Irish Brigade was effectively shelved by the Germans.

Keogh joined the German Army proper, where he rose to the rank of Field Lieutenant. In his regiment he met a fiery Lance Corporal called Adolf Hitler.

After the war, Germany descended into chaos as rival factions vied to fill the void left by the collapse of the old order. Keogh joined the proto-fascist Freikorps, who were sworn to smash Communism.

When Marxists attempted to set up a Bavarian Soviet Republic in Munich, the Friekorps wiped them out with shocking brutality. Peace had no sooner been restored than it was shattered by the noisiest man in Germany.

Keogh was duty officer at a Munich barracks when he was called to quell a riot that had erupted in a gym. What he saw was not exactly a fair fight.

A crowd of some 200 soldiers was kicking the living daylights out of just two. Some of the attackers were brandishing bayonets. The two victims were about to die.

Keogh ordered his men to fire a salvo over the heads of the mob. It did the trick. He dragged the two victims out of the gym “cut, bleeding and in need of the doctor”.

It was a measure of Hitler’s madness that he had entered the hall to provoke a reaction from 200 troops, by hectoring them with views that were already openly hateful.

As Keogh dragged him off to the guardroom for his own safety, the future fuhrer continued to spew angry comments.

Once there, Keogh recalled: “The fellow with the moustache gave his name as Adolf Hitler. It was the Lance Corporal of Ligny. I would not have recognised him. He was thin and emaciated from his wounds.”

Keogh arrived back in Ireland in late 1919 as the War of Independence was coming to a boil. He linked with Michael Collins, trafficking guns from Germany.
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An unintentionally based article https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/jewish-fenians-and-anti-semites-the-jewish-role-in-the-irish-fight-for-freedom-1.4526074
Reading now and seems really only real Jewish involvement with IRA etc was Robert Briscoe (to which Ernst Blythe and others had paranoia over), Estella Solomons who was a painter and joined Cumann na mBan and then in America there was some notions of trying to relate to Jews in order to get some donations like ''Jews and Irish have both been persecuted so u should help us with the cause'' but that pretty much seems furthest extent
Archiving Irish Diversity Stuff (AIDS)
Reading now and seems really only real Jewish involvement with IRA etc was Robert Briscoe (to which Ernst Blythe and others had paranoia over), Estella Solomons who was a painter and joined Cumann na mBan and then in America there was some notions of trying…
in saying this though:

Some Irish Americans suggested that Jews were often pro-British, especially after the Balfour Declaration. So in America, as the Irish Independent noted in 1919, the ‘Jews and Irish (were) on opposite sides’ because ‘since the British declaration in favour of a Jewish Palestine, American Jewry has been solidly on the side of Great Britain’. An Irish-American priest, John J Callaghan, while lamenting the ‘ever-increasing hostility towards our Jewish fellow-citizens’, nevertheless thought it ‘very much to be deplored that the two chief organs of Anglo-Jew opinion – the New York Times and the New York World – should be the chief apologists for British barbarity in Ireland … Our Irish-American fellow-citizens should closely watch the editorial policy of these Anglo-Jew journals on international questions. These newspapers are anti-American in spirit and are published in the interest of the British Empire.’
Archiving Irish Diversity Stuff (AIDS)
An unintentionally based article https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/jewish-fenians-and-anti-semites-the-jewish-role-in-the-irish-fight-for-freedom-1.4526074
The conclusion is a clear gaslight with basically ''There was Anti-Jewish sentiment but no anti-Semitic policies so therefore you're British/Unionist if you believe in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories '', but overall was a funny read with some interesting bits (most main ones posted)
Jews contributing to Ireland:

Josce of Gloucester funding strongbow.

Menasseh Ben Israel and Co funding and supporting Cromwell

Francisco Loped Suasso aka Abraham Israel Suasso and Co funding William of Orange

Rothschilds doing predatory famine relief schemes as most were in exchange for land, meanwhile 10 years before they bailed out slave owners (mostly their friends) to sum of £20 million to free African slaves, nothing given for ages to starving irish and even so only totalled 10 million over the whole famine

30,000 Irish immigrants dying in the construction of the New Basin Canal in 1830 via the interests of a Jewish businessman

Being used as Cannon Fodder during American Civil War

“Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon” - Benjamin Disraeli to Daniel O’Connell

Peter Benenson, Amnesty founder was a British spook and son of a Rothschild via Flora Solomon (she was an influential Zionist and a daughter of the Jewish Russian gold tycoon Grigori Benenson, related to the Rothschild family) which heavily promoted abortion in Ireland as well as pushing hard for tranny rights

Mervyn Taylor campaigning to liberalise divorce.

Alan Shatter deconstructing our citizenship laws, giving 10 million in taxpayer money for Israel to buy arms and handing out 69,000 passports to foreigners in 2011 and introduced the idea of citizenship ceremonies

Ivana Bacik pushing homo adoption and abortion.

Lentin/Sorcha Pollak/Fintan O'Tooles endless anti Irish crusade

Berman+Andy Pollock in immigration council of Ireland and places of sanctuary Ireland - both promoting more immigration/integration

Annie DeBhal working with Beacon to monitor the Irish far right

Jacob Wolf saying he would start an Anti-Semitism watchdog in Ireland via contacts in New York

Soros funding sex workers alliance, abortion and having invested stake in Cairns Homes + has Liam Hogan working for him with OpenSocieites which aims to pin the blame on slavery to Irish ppl and Hogan works with the SPLC and Jew Historian Jerome Handler to aim at demonising Irish people

Jewish council of Ireland - 56 page submission of proposals (the most of any group, second was Facebook with 15 pages) for recommendations to hate speech laws in Ireland

Etc
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