I find this attitude to be so stupid though. The famine was a dark period and all that, but if you’re still in Ireland it means your ancestors survived it and didn’t have to flee. I don’t see any hypocrisy in Irish whose people stayed the course in Ireland not wanting mass immigration just because other Irish people who for whatever reason perished or fled during the famine went to foreign lands. We also went places where on a macro level at least they wanted low skilled immigrants (brits and yanks had shit needed building, aussies just needed people to populate the land). This again is very different to Africans or Arabs for whom we have no practical use coming to Ireland en masse.