Dovresti essere quasi pazzo – o americano – per provare nostalgia per l’Irlanda degli anni ’70
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/02/21/mark-oconnell-you-would-have-to-be-borderline-insane-or-american-to-feel-nostalgic-for-1970s-ireland
di EnvironmentalShift25
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Yeah you would, people left the country then because there was absolutely nothing for them here.
In the 70s Ireland was run by a combination of a corrupt, incompetent government and an evil, all powerful cult.
Now we are just run by a corrupt, incompetent government.
50 years of progress.
> But it would require a particularly high level of ideological derangement for an Irish person to take the narrative presented in that YouTube video at face value. The country we live in today is no utopia, but you would have to be borderline insane – with a strong sentimental attachment to poverty and oppressive theocracy, to grinding misogyny and institutional child abuse – to feel nostalgic for the Ireland of the 1970s. In fact – and I suspect this might be the crucial point – you would pretty much have to not be Irish at all.
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Bang on.
1970s ireland – when men were men and sheep were nervous
> In fact – and I suspect this might be the crucial point – you would pretty much have to not be Irish at all.
This is a nice little rhetorical flourish to end the piece, but I don’t think it makes much sense. He lists things that happened in Ireland, done by Irish people, supported by a majority of Irish people and concludes you can’t be Irish if you’re nostalgic for it today?
The Commitments was a social documentary.
The 80s were as bad. The only redeeming thing about the 70s is that we thought the 80s were go be better. Fat chance.
Borderline insane = America. They’re straight falling into a fascist autocracy. Yanks are a lost cause.
Online (and on here) you regularly hear people say x or y has never been so bad, and I wonder are all these people 14 years old or do they simply have a massive memory hole. Anyone aged maybe 35+ can remember things that were absolutely arse backwards in this country.
I always like to remind people who are overly wistful that the last Magdalene Laundry didn’t close its doors until 1994. Incidentally it was 1993 that the unmarked graves of 155 women were found on the grounds of one, in Drumcondra. The last mother and baby home closed in 1998.
Yeah. Similar nostalgia vibes going on other Irish subs. As someone whose entire childhood and teenage years spans almost all of the ‘70s and ‘80s in Ireland, I have no warm fuzzy feelings for back then. I don’t have the pure hate (often well deserved) that many have for the era, but I’ve also zero nostalgia. None.
I suspect it’s a combination of Russian bots and cretins.
Most Irish Americans have never been to Ireland. Own grandparents had good jobs albeit a lot of children. Regularly Heard stories about long walks to school and holes in shoes and proper famine sounded dinners