I Have Seen the Future (of Ireland) – It is Murder

The following is an essay – a statement of a series of facts and nothing more. It’s not an endorsement of anything or any kind of sick hope or nihilistic wish. It should be taken as a warning of events to be expected.

To understand the future, one must inspect the past.

I. The Ancient Web: Ireland Before Empire

By all indication, before the “beginning of history” when man began to write and record the events of their nations, Ireland was part of and possibly an influential node in a vast cultural “empire” or web of common identities, where someone could travel from Galway, to Lisbon, to Moscow, and even though the language of where he or she went would vary more and more as they travelled, they would still find themselves at home with the people they met. At the very least the Gods of their homeland would be one in the same across this “empire” despite being different in name and providence. They may find themselves in strange and different places, yet behind those differences were the same fundamental beliefs about the world.
This isn’t a utopia I’m describing – it certainly had its wars and suffering, but it was enduring and stable enough for the people of Europe to spread into and survive in the harshest of environments and to develop enduring philosophies of life and sacred architecture which parallel the inexplicable Pyramids and other Wonders around the world.

This is your legacy, children of Europe and Ireland. A world of wonders that co-existed with Ancient Greece and was only fully broken by Rome’s relentless expansion after 500 years of continuous bloodshed. With the rise of Christianity and the collapse of the Roman Empire, Christendom and the Holy Roman Empire was born – of which Ireland belonged to the former, but not the latter. The main reason for this is no different to Rome’s construction of Hadrian’s Wall – the Romans feared expanding into Ireland from their foothold in Britain, much like they feared further expansion north from current-day England into current-day Scotland – we, like the Germanic tribes, were a formidable enemy, even more of a challenge to subjugate than the Celts of current-day England and Wales. As a result of this historical reality, countries like Scotland and Ireland lay outside of the rule of the Pope, resulting in fractures in the “one true religion”, most notably Ireland’s heretical calculation of Easter landing on a different date. At this time, Ireland was still a loose “confederation” of “kingdoms” ruled in the exact same way, except the Old Gods slowly gave way to Jesus – Druids, the spiritual advisors to both the people and kings, became Monks, maintaining their pagan style of decentralised spirituality, yet still slowly adopting the occasional reforms decided by the Cardinals and the Pope in Rome.

II. The First Betrayal: From Laudabiliter to the Free State

Despite Ireland’s continued Christianisation and gradual conformity to the Pope’s version of Christianity, we still drew the ire of the “one true Church” when the expansionist kingdom of England got its first Pope on the throne in Rome – Pope Adrian IV, elected in 1154. Within months, probably weeks, this new Pope issued a Papal Bull (decree or order) that the newly-coronated King Henry II of England had a divine right to invade and subjugate Ireland in order to eliminate these heresies. Historians believe that the decree was outdated when it was issued or at least by time it was acted upon, as Ireland was in the process of reforming, re-enforcing the likelihood that the English Pope gave the English King a religious pretext to claim the neighbouring island as part of England.
There’s a myth floating around which has even been repeated on our national broadcaster at least a few times, and that’s the Rí (chieftain or “king”) of Leinster stole the wife of the Rí of Breifne (around current-day Sligo), with the latter employing English mercenaries to take back his wife. This violation of Irish customs, as well as that of the destruction of religious customs and the elective monarchy system, incited a country-wide coalition to dethrone him. He fled to England, where 12 years later, he arrived back in Ireland with several boats of King Henry II’s army. His foreign army was successful and settled in the lands promised to them, but with the previous Papal Bull (Laudabiliter) in-hand, they began the 800-year gradual conquest of Ireland.

This brings us to modern times. The Medieval era was complex for Ireland, involving an early opportunity for Ireland’s independence, which in my humble opinion was obliterated along with Napoleon’s army at Waterloo in 1815. Although the British Empire’s long-time rival France was seriously weakened, Britain itself was weakened a century later by World War I, leading to The Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, reforming Ireland into the “Free State” as a client state (vassal, dominion, etc) under Britain, eventually sparking a civil war, which impoverished and weakened Britain was in no position to put down.

The problem with The Republic of Ireland (symbolised by a tricolour which includes orange (for the Orange Order), as sensical as if Israel put a swastika in corner of their flag) is that it’s a continuation of the Free State, which in-turn is a continuation of direct British rule. Many laws are still on the Irish books dating back to direct British rule, and some dating back to the Free State, with those laws only becoming void or amended by modern legislation. A few examples of these laws, still used today, include:

1. The Lunacy Regulation (Ireland) Act 1871 – Allows the state to seize the property of “lunatics” and “idiots.”
2. The Vagrancy (Ireland) Act 1847 – Allows police and local governments to persecute people for sleeping rough and begging. Introduced to punish the starving evicted Irish for being starving and evicted.
3. The Summary Jurisdiction (Ireland) Act 1851 – Why Circuit courts never have juries.
4. The Fatal Accidents Act 1846 (Lord Campbell’s Act) – Your life is only worth how much money you make.
5. The Explosive Substances Act 1883 – Why you can’t possess explosive substances.
6. Firearms Act 1925 (Free State) – Why none of us have guns (except for licensed hunters).
7. The Landlord and Tenant Law Amendment Act (Ireland) 1860 (“Deasy’s Act”) – Still used to evict people today. A friend of the banks and vulture funds.
8. The Offences Against the Person Act 1861 – Outlawed abortion and sodomy (anal, oral, and non-procreative sex), but still outlaws concealed pregnancies.
9. The Public Dance Halls Act 1935 – Dancing in public can be illegal if the police (formerly known as Gardaí) are educated enough on the law and decide to harass you.

But of course the REAL PROBLEM isn’t the laws on the books themselves, but why they’re there to begin with. The state we live in is a DIRECT carbon copy of the colonial structure which released us as an “independent” nation – not out of charity, compassion, or (God forbid) SHAME, but because it could no longer endure the economic, military, or diplomatic cost of keeping us. Although all legal ties were severed by 1937, it was another 12 years before we declared ourselves as a Republic and, consequently, severed ties with the Commonwealth – a strange, quasi-modern Personal Union union, which many countries like Canada, Australia, and India are still in, which ceremonially recognises King Charles as their head of state, yet seemingly only exists now as an economic bloc. Even though we’ve left that Personal Union, we’re still subject to the City of London, along with our “fellow free nation,” the United States. But that’s different story for another time, but you could always watch “The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire.”

III.The EU Illusion: Roads Built with Blood Money

Ireland’s alleged freedom lasted a total of 24 years.
My grandfather was among the many who fought for the integrity, dignity, and liberty of Irish people in Northern Ireland and Ireland as a whole. His life was taken by Crown forces in 1972 on the streets of Belfast as he was walking home unarmed. He was spared seeing something happen which he and his fellow IRA and leftists warned Ireland against – joining the EEC (European Economic Community) a year later with 83% of the vote. Not only did he and they see this as a surrendering of Ireland’s economic sovereignty, controlling our tariffs, being subjugated again by Britain as a fellow-member, and the suppression of Irish wages, but they also saw that it would become yet another superstate like the British Empire – and that’s exactly what it became with the formation of the EU in 1993. Since then, Ireland has lost control of its resources, its economy, and even its own laws. Worse yet, it’s slowly becoming militarised, which our Socialist grandparents also rightly predicted. Believe it or not, the Left once rejected the EU as a neocolonial project, along with mass immigration, and a dozen other things which today they fully support. Go figure.

After decades of poverty, the 1990s was our first taste of a decent life when Charles Haughey’s “tightened belts” were loosened. The economically and historically illiterate (see: everyone) mistook this for the economic miracle of the EU. Whenever anyone in the 90s or 2000s criticised the superstate, the inevitable reply was “they built the roads,” when that couldn’t be any further from the truth, and was in fact an inversion of reality. The truth is, the EU is a gigantic inverted Ponzi Scheme, a scam of robbing older members to enrich new members, with the only real winners being the fat cat bureaucrats living or frequently flying to Brussels for talking shops and to plan how to further fleece the decreasing-number of new members as well as the old members of what little left they have.
Ireland built OTHER PEOPLES ROADS with an ingenious plot called becoming a tax haven. Intel, Microsoft, Apple, then later Google and a number of pharmaceutical corporations came to Ireland in order to funnel their entire world’s profit through our generous 12.5% corporation tax, flooding the country with money, increasing our dues to the EU, resulting in the EU giving back to us a fraction of that money earmarked for those roads the EU fetishists lose their minds over. The country was unnaturally flooded with money, both in the government coffers and in peoples pockets, until a series of “unfortunate events” in the form of the banking crisis of 2008 and the subsequent Obama-era clampdowns on corporate tax evasion. It was then that the EU truly fucked us, just like they fucked Greece, by forcing us to bail out the banks and forcing Apple to pay billions in back-taxes (a great wee boost for the exchequer, but hurting our credibility as a tax haven) – the EU knew all along we were a tax haven, obviously, but our new overlord needed the windfall. Our state lawyers fought valiantly to protect the grift, but it ultimately failed. Another layer to the scam was the introduction of REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust), allowing corporations like Blackstone, Kennedy Wilson, and Lone Star to ultimately own about 20% of residential properties, because they could purchase them tax-free. That, and the gas and oil beneath our feet, as well as the fish in our own seas and ocean, sold or simply given away.

IV. The Coming Collapse: From REITs to Roulette

A reckoning is coming, heralded by the re-election of Donald Trump in America and his plan to bring production and tax revenue back to the US – and God bless him for it. The amount of money this country pays out, including the cost of housing the massive amount of migrants we take in every year, as well as the fines the EU imposes on us for not being able to house them all, is all funded by these several layers of scams at our personal expense. The rising cost of your weekly shop and your fuel isn’t just greedy capitalists taking advantage – it’s partly that, but it’s also the early signs of a critically failing market. Since Trump’s ascendancy to power in January, we’ve already lost thousands of jobs thanks to his actions alone, as well as the tax revenue they brought with them. On the horizon looms the ghost of Charles Haughey, warning us that we yet again must tighten those belts, and once again learn how to boil rocks and eat grass for sustenance.

Today, less than 70% of the inhabitants of Ireland are ethnically Irish – I estimate about 63%. This is down from 98 to 99% in 1997. A former (German) President of University College Dublin in 2005 said that the Irish could be a minority in their own country by 2050, which seemed alarmist at the time, but given the dramatic shift in our demographics since then, it almost seems inevitable, especially given the number of IPAS centres strewn about the country, including in Gaeltacht areas where not only must locals compete for housing and other services, but they must compete in an already-losing game to retain our native language.
At some point the coffers are going to dry up. We already think things are bad, with every single public service showing signs of early failure, and with more and more people struggling to find a home, let alone rent one, let alone afford a mortgage for one. The wheels are well and truly coming off, and we’re all doing our best to imagine that it’s not even happening, with some of us invoking the ancient Irish adage, “Ah, shure, it’ll be grand.” But it won’t be grand.
I need you to listen to me very carefully now.

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”

– Vladimir Lenin, a popular paraphrase

We live our lives just like we’re meant to – just like our ancestors did, just like the animals in the zoo. Things change in our environment every few years, but we barely notice because our brains alter our perception of change in order to keep us sane. Just considering the rate of technological change alone, if we were living the lives we live today, except with our own brains from 20 years ago, we may just be disgusted with ourselves and yearn for simpler times, because, in truth, our lives now resemble a Black Mirror episode. And that’s besides the increased costs, taxes, and state interferences in our lives.
The point is, change creeps up, then one day it happens all at once. And mark my words, one hell of a change is coming.

Soon, we won’t be able to afford to house, feed, or service our most vulnerable. This includes the tens of thousands of useless eaters we’re currently collecting like Pokémon in our hotels, commercial units, and rental houses (AKA, IPAS centres). An almighty horde of incapable and useless people will suddenly find themselves desperate. Next, you’ll be desperate. If you’re not fortunate enough to land on black in the massive roulette game called “living in Ireland”, you’ll likely find yourself out of a job, on severely reduced welfare supplement, and with food, energy, and accommodation costs that continued to skyrocket beyond anyone’s capacity to keep up with, except for the most privileged. You, too, will become part of the incapable and useless horde. Don’t fool yourself – no amount of rent caps or legislation will save you. Those are plasters/band aids over a malignant tumour. The time for mitigation and cure will have long past, and you’ll then find yourself on a 3rd world island populated by equally desperate people, a large contingent of whom only recently arrived here from not dissimilar conditions – extreme poverty and the brutalities of war. You’ll be at a disadvantage. They’ll hate you for who you are. They’ll want what little left you have.

V. The Savage Grace: Clan vs. Collapse

The smartest thing someone could do in such a scenario (which I totally made up by the way and which has absolutely no basis in reality and could never happen in a million-bajillion years, because Ireland is just that special) is to become part of that horde. At that point, all law and order will have broken down. Our already overstretched “Gardaí Síochana” will be working on a shoestring budget and likely populated by unvetted foreigners working for a fraction of the cost of a native policeman. THEY TOO WILL BE PART OF THE HORDE. At that point they’ll have lost all legitimacy as they no longer can or want to prevent crime and most of your interactions with them will be bribery demands. This is a world where you keep family and friends close, you never ever abandon them because they’re all you have, and you cut the throats of whoever gets in their or your way.

Yes. This is a stark suggestion and it may seem like hyperbole, satire, or the words of a rambling maniac, but the writing is on the wall if you ever care to read it. Collapse happens slowly, then it happens all at once.

When the Sicilians migrated to the United States, they behaved as if they lived in a post-apocalyptic world. Sure, they worked their asses off, but like every other immigrant group they pulled every trick they could to make sure they and their own lived good lives. Eventually, these family structures had to consolidate their efforts in response to law enforcement and other factors, and La Cosa Nostra was born – “Our Thing.” LCN reached its peak in North America in the mid-20th Century, spanning the whole continent. Much like the Irish tanistry/clann system and their own pre-Roman ancestors, LCN was a loose confederation of families which adapted to their circumstances. The ultimate adaptation of LCN was a transition to mostly legal activities, starting with the foundation of the world famous city, impossibly in the middle of a fucking desert, by the name of Las Vegas. LCN adapted that way because law enforcement applied outside pressure and because the US had a functioning economy they could partake in. Ireland, however, won’t be as lucky. There is no EU or even UK or US coming to save us, because most of the world will be in the same bucket, grabbing each others legs trying to climb out. It will be decades, perhaps generations, before we manage to recover anything resembling a civilised economy again.

The interesting thing about the Sicilian mafia is that they were heroes back in the old country. During the harshest times of the Feudal period, where peasants worked the land and paid most of their food and gold to the Lord, who in turn paid the King tribute for being allowed to exploit the peasants, peasants formed “mafias” to protect themselves against egregious exploitation. Families and networks of families learned to trust and rely on each other, basically becoming their own nobility to parallel and challenge the nobility who exploited them, essentially recreating the ancient family/clann-based governance structure of their ancestors.

We’ve come a long way from our ancient roots as a country, and we’ve forgotten many valuable lessons and surrendered many immortal truths along the way, so perhaps the nightmare reality which I’ve just painted for you could possibly be the best thing that’s happened to us in recorded history, much like the best thing that could have happened to Rome is for it to collapse and give birth to the Medieval era and its Renaissance.

Irish poets learn your trade
Sing whatever is well made,
Scorn the sort now growing up
All out of shape from toe to top,
Their unremembering hearts and heads
Base-born products of base beds.
Sing the peasantry, and then
Hard-riding country gentlemen,
The holiness of monks, and after
Porter-drinkers’ randy laughter;
Sing the lords and ladies gay
That were beaten into the clay
Through seven heroic centuries;
Cast your mind on other days
That we in coming days may be
Still the indomitable Irishry.

– Under Ben Bulben, W.B. Yeats