Given that most was during or soon after the famine and the population was reduced by over half and has never recovered. I think the Irish will rightly say that it is not a good thing. Too many in to short a period for it to be a good thing.
In UK we have the opposite with people coming in, too many over to short a period
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Show me another »Irish only question please, has mass immigration been good for Eire?
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3 weeks ago
Never more, you live in Ireland?, the Irish fled London some years back.
3 weeks ago
Naww, but my moms ancestors are from there. the Oneals
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