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Noh The U. Makes a Mockery of Treaties and International Law. Jacqueline Keeler Origin Stories. New from CounterPunch. Top Stories. As a teenager I was sometimes asked if I saw myself as being of Irish or English nationality. I would reply that I was Anglo-Irish and, if the person I was talking to asked no further questions about my national identity, I would leave it at that. I would explain that the Anglo-Irish had been the dominant Protestant landowners and professional class during the last three centuries or so of British rule in Ireland.
Their descendants, stripped of political and economic power, lived on there after independence. I would then take the questioner, who was by now probably a little aghast at this torrent of information and wishing that they had kept their mouth shut, on a rapid excursion through Irish history starting with the Norman invasion led by Strongbow in I understood that the person who asked the question was hearing more about national identity and its complex origins in Ireland and England than they had bargained for.
I could see that this was true, but at the same time I was unsympathetic to anybody expecting over-simplistic answers to issues as complex as nationality, nationalism, national identity and national self-determination — questions which are among the main driving forces of modern history.
They are so powerful because the nation state remains the primary focus of communal loyalty — something demonstrated decisively by the response worldwide to the Covid pandemic.
The lack of international co-operation when the chips were down has had destructive consequences and this has been the repeated pattern all over the world in the last two years. The Brexit debate in Britain should have led to a more sophisticated approach to nationality, but discussion about it was scanty and generally shallow. Brexiteers tended to view their demand for self-determination as justified by British exceptionalism.
They steered clear of analogies with independence movements in India, Ireland, Vietnam, Algeria, Mozambique — to name but a few leave aside for a moment the degree to which Britain was really controlled by the EU and accept that many thought that this was so.
On occasion, surprising people would see the parallels between the demand for full control of their future by Ireland and England. The comparison drew hoots of derision from commentators on the progressive end of the political spectrum who said that the situations in Ireland a century ago and Britain today were entirely different.
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