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Tangentially, one would expect Irish laws to deal more with their own atrocities, such as British occupation, their near-eradication of Gaelic, or denial of England's role in the Irish potato famine.



To be fair, that was over 100 years ago at this point.


And the Holocaust was 80 years ago?


As someone who is Irish and learned all about colonialism in my history class on the centuries of British rule in Ireland, I would never lightly make a comparison to the holocaust like that.


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Gaelic was the majority language in Ireland until the 19th century. Now only 4% speak it daily. They have real problems with their own culture being erased. Given this dire state, one would think that would be their priority, but it doesn't rate so much as a mention.




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