Seamus Murphy: belief

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…And that’s changed in Ireland today, you think? I’ve just come from Ireland, and it’s all still there. In fact, I think that what happened was when the Celtic Tiger happened, and then there was that terrible crash, it is reckoned that the Irish learned a lesson. I hope they have because it did seem like things were . . . As the Irish say, they lost the run of themselves. It was all about stages, and it was all about accumulating properties and all the rest of it, and going into huge debt. I think people have learned that lesson. I’ve just come from there, and there’s a wonderful atmosphere. There’s a very small minority of people that are heading towards this far right anti-immigrant action. Very, very, very noisy on social media, so it sounds like it’s everywhere. It’s not, actually. I discovered it wasn’t. I think they’ve learned the lesson from the Celtic Tiger. I think it was a pretty shallow place back then. These are generalizations obviously. Not everyone was prone to that. If I were to make to you the counterintuitive claim that Northern Ireland feels like the real Ireland to me, does that make any sense to you whatsoever? To me, it’s the Ireland that is still pre-modern in many of its parts, and the Republic is not, other than maybe the west coast or parts of the deep south?…

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