Review 'Encounters:How Racism Came To Ireland' [Guardian]

national | miscellaneous | news report Monday June 03, 2002 01:04 by GluttonMan

'I want no American aid if it comes across the Atlantic stained in Negro blood.'-Daniel O'Connell

The Guardian has a review of "Encounters: How Racism Came to Ireland", by Bill Rolston and Michael Shannon. The book explores the origins of Irish racism. The review starts about halfway down the page (the 9th paragraph). One of the review's points is that racism has a deep history in Ireland and has not -- contrary to the startled exclamations of contemporary commentators -- suddenly sprung out of nowhere. It's good to see that O'Connell was on the right side, and good to see reminders of the support from "non-white" leaders for the struggle for Irish independence.