Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "Why Ireland Has Fewer People Than 200 Years Ago" video.

  1. Guess what, Irish people are still emigrating to far flung places like Australia, despite it's demographic aging like most other countries in Europe. Ireland has had a very long history of emmigration to Oceania, ever since the late 1700s. I've met quite a few Irish immigrants myself, usually young people under 40 working in both blue and white collar jobs. What attracts them to Australia? A similar mainstream culture, good English language skills and relative ease of entry as skilled or semi-skilled immigrants, and higher pay than the same jobs in Ireland, and lastly but just as importantly, little historic anti-Irish attitudes from the established population (which afflicted the United States, and also probably England, in earlier times). It's estimated that up to 30% of all Australian immigrants orginating from Europe, or with some or all European ancestry (especially those who can trace ancestry back to the nineteenth century) have Irish ancestry (a higher proportion than the United States), including some of my own ancestry.
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