How the Irish Became White Supremacists

Sean O’ Dubhghaill is Professor of International Relations at the Brussels School of Governance. He published An Anthropology of the Irish in Belgium: Belonging, Identity and Community in 2020.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction 0.1 What is white supremacy?Chapter 1: Hostility and Hospitality1.1. Afrophobia and hibernophobia are not new: What is ‘group threat theory’? 1.2. The contact hypothesis and structural violence: How racial prejudice wanes as estrangement does1.3. Host/Guest1.4. Ireland’s full: When hospitality runs outChapter 2: Suspect Communities and Hibernophobia2.1. Suspect communities2.2. Similar behaviours, different levels of suspicion2.3. On the receiving end of suspicion: On auto-ethnography2.4. All suspicions are imagined unequally2.5. Imagined communities versus suspect communities are equivalent to an imagined community versus a community imaginedChapter 3: Multiculturalism, Populism and Xenophobia3.1. To oppose immigration3.2. What multiculturalism needs to succeed3.3. What kinds of policies does multiculturalism entertain? 3.4. No fences make good neighbours: Resolving conflict3.5. Populism, or division is normal and natural3.6. Irexit, or lies that populists need to be true3.7. When is it rational to be xenophobic? Chapter 4: Diaspora Policy4.1. The Irish diaspora is a great resource4.2. Identity and business4.3. The risk to Irish StudiesChapter 5: Leuven and the Reinvention of Ireland5.1. The Irish diaspora and enterprise5.2. The fire in LeuvenChapter 6: Re-visiting How the Irish became White (Supremacists)6.1. Difference and Prophet Song6.2. The Irish became White6.3. On the impossibility of studying the Irish6.4. No one gives a damn about the IrishChapter 7: Believe in Dublin. Believe in Ireland7.1. Believe in Dublin7.2. What is it to believe?7.3. Recommendations