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Earlier this month on Counter-Currents, I wrote about the Left-wing Irish ruling elite’s wretched attempts to transform the country’s main female religious icon, St Brigid, into the patron saint not of Ireland, but of abortion, lesbianism, and globalization. Then, on March 17, St Patrick’s Day arrived, and these very same godawful eejits decided to repeat exactly the same trick a second time. Their new victim was the nation’s chief male patron saint, St Patrick, who was spuriously reconfigured into the presiding deity of mass immigration, anti-colonialism, and “tolerance” in all its forms.

The name “Connolly” has a proud history in Irish politics; but no longer, with Eire’s current President being a meddling little far-Left, open-borders, multi-gender, dunce with a face drawn on named Catherine Connolly. President Connolly finds the idea Ireland might be full right now to be “disturbing and unacceptable” saying it was “not based on any evidence or any facts,” apart from all the masses of evidence and facts that it very clearly is. Connolly thinks immigrants bring naught but benefits to Ireland, one of her chief exhibits being that St Patrick was himself “an immigrant” as she outlined in a characteristically asinine speech on March 17, in which she caused controversy by repeatedly omitting to refer to the man specifically as “Saint Patrick,” just “Patrick,” Christianity being far too characteristically Irish for her tastes. At least she didn’t call him Paddy the Papist.

Connolly began by speaking in Gaelic, although it is eminently possible she may simply have been attempting to summon Cthulhu. At first she seemed to be talking bland if unobjectionable sense, saying that St Patrick’s Day was “an occasion when Irish communities around the world celebrate their shared love of all things Irish—our culture, heritage, identity and of course our beautiful language, Gaeilge.” But this was qualified by her saying that this applied “Whether we are Irish by birth or indeed by choice.” How can you be Irish “by choice”? By turning up there in a shipping-container one day from Lagos, and choosing to milk the system by asking for an instant free house and welfare payments. “It is a testament to [Ireland’s] rich heritage and culture that St Patrick’s Day has become such a vibrant and inclusive celebration,” Catherine continued. So “vibrant and inclusive” it can now be enjoyed by literally anyone—the less Irish you are, the better, in fact.

Shannon Fodder

Here are two contrasting statues of St Patrick, the first erected atop the hill of Slieve Patrick in County Down, Northern Ireland, in 1932 to mark 1,500 years since the man himself landed on the island to convert the heathen natives, the second being tossed up by a bored workman elsewhere in Northern Ireland in 2007 to mark the 1,500th anniversary of sod all.

The first one is now just far too concrete and specific for today’s rootless European governing class like Catherine Connolly to cope with; just look at the fellow, he appears of good Celtic Irish stock, his face being modeled directly upon that of the then-Bishop of Dublin, whilst even the lichen allowed to grow over his form makes him seem like a living human embodiment of the timeless landscape around him, a solid stone expression of the mystical conjunction of blood and soil, or at least chlorophyll and granite.

The second one, however, despite being made of steel, is just a hollowed-out, empty, globalist abstraction—one of TS Eliot’s “Hollow Men” in approximately 2.5 dimensions, the sort of truly fungible rootless cosmopolitan we are all intended to become in the ideal world of President Connolly where everyone can potentially be “Irish by birth or indeed by choice.” Put that same statue in England and say it’s St George, or in Scotland and say it’s St Andrew, and nobody would be able to prove otherwise, as it’s all just so generic and interchangeable, by intentional design.

Equally generic and interchangeable by intentional design was the below cheap AI-generated slop poster for this year’s St Patrick’s Day parade in the Irish town of Shannon, which aimed to “CELEBRATE THE CULTURES,” plural, of the place this March 17.

Where to begin with what is billed as being “the most colorful & inclusive parade Shannon has ever seen!”? The most authentically Irish thing here is the .ie web address suffix. Why would you be required to celebrate other people’s cultures on what is meant to be a day devoted purely towards celebrating your own? Do note how, in the array of flags at the top, the order is Ukraine first, then the Philippines, UAE, Syria, Austria, Brazil, Poland. . . and Ireland very much last, in all senses. The weird gender reversal in the scene at the center, in which a grinning young Paddy (in a Nehru-style Indian shirt) stands drenched in submissive third-world pussy in what appears to be an incipient sharia-compliant polygamous marriage is also the precise reverse of all those primarily male blacks and Arabs pouring into the land and gang-raping all the very much non-smiling white women.

Who spawned this slop, besides an algorithm? It was a typical NGO body called “Shannon Community Partnership” (SCP), whose slogan on its logo tells you everything you need to know about it:

Shannon is an Irish New Town, a settlement founded only in the 1960s, and so standing as something of an artificial, centrally-planned construct in and of itself. As such, unlike Dublin or Cork, it has no meaningful age-old history of its own, so it stands as a handy blank canvas to build a completely fake “Irish” history upon instead, with SCP being only too happy to oblige. As the NGO says:

As one of Ireland’s newest towns, Shannon has always been defined by a spirit of welcome, openness and inclusion. From its earliest days, the town grew through collaboration with people and expertise drawn from the 32 counties of Ireland and across the world. This is what makes Shannon so special and its community connections so strong … We know that the vast majority of people in Shannon believe that no matter who you are, where you come from, the color of your skin or your gender, we can all work together to make Shannon the best it can be … Ireland is stronger when we stay positive and celebrate each other.

Many actual real, non-AI-generated Irish people disagreed, subjecting the SCP to a tirade of abuse online, to which they responded by blocking all dissenting comments on their webpages and social media. This is ironic, as the corporate logo of the body deliberately includes a pair of speech-marks, on the following rationale:

If they really value “dialogue—conversation & communication”, then why did you turn off all the comments once people began telling you to go back to NGO-land?

Making the Celtic Cross

The “conversation” here is supposed to go precisely one way, like the “conversation” a two-year-old has with his teddy-bear before dunking it into the toilet. At this point, let’s return back to President Catherine Connolly, whose entire career and consequent risible St Patrick’s Day speech embody precisely the same pattern of one-way dialogue.

Cathleen, a pure Kali Yuga inversion of Yeats’ own poetic female personification of the Irish nation of that near name, was an overwhelmingly popular choice to become the country’s political figurehead, winning 63% of the vote in Ireland’s presidential election last year. Closer inspection, however, reveals only 54% of the electorate bothered to vote at all, the second-lowest turnout ever. Meanwhile, 7% of participants voted for a candidate who had withdrawn from the race weeks beforehand, whilst a record 13% spoiled their ballots, many being disillusioned working-class white natives furious about the levels of uncontrolled immigration into a land where around one in four residents were now born abroad. Reports immediately prior to the election that an asylum seeker had apparently raped a 10-year-old Irish girl helped ensure this mass protest-vote turned out.

No doubt the slip-spoilers would have preferred to have voted for an anti-immigration candidate rather than just scrawling obscenities on their papers, but none was available to vote for; via various abuses of procedure, the Irish authorities had ensured the only “choice” on offer was between Connolly and her close reflection in a slightly warped mirror. One contender nobody was allowed to choose was Maria Steen, an immigration-skeptical Catholic social conservative, whom pre-vote polls showed would have won 22% of the vote if allowed to stand, and this was without her even being permitted to run any actual PR campaign. Unlike the anti-abortion Steen, Catherine Connolly was a prominent long-time champion of “a woman’s right to choose.” Not if the thing a woman wishes to have a right to choose is to continue to maintain the existence of her own white homeland.

When it comes to mass immigration, Connolly is really little more than a clone of her recent predecessors in a dress, as can be seen by examining their own St Patrick’s Day speeches. Her immediate precursor as President was Michael “Diddyman” Higgins, who in 2023 abused St Patrick’s supposed ancient status as “a migrant” into the country to lecture the uncouth bog-monster culchies to stay away from the “poisonous xenophobia” which had taken hold in parts of the country ever since leprechauns like him started trying to Great Replace everybody: “The story of his [St Patrick’s] life as a migrant, we must never forget, is a reminder of the resilience and necessary courage of migrants, a reminder too of the contributions that they have made, and continue to make, to the countries they call home.”

Similarly, in 2017, Ireland’s then-Taoiseach, or Prime Minister, Enda Kenny, traveled to Washington and gave a St Patrick’s Day speech rebuking the newly-elected Donald Trump for announcing his plan to build a big, beautiful wall with Mexico, piously asserting that St Patrick was the patron saint of immigrants, and that the Irish had a duty to defend such people because they were historically all immigrants themselves; even ones like him whose ancestors stayed back at home in Erin, apparently. According to the total Taoiseach:

Ireland came to America because – deprived of liberty, opportunity, safety and even food itself – we believed. Four decades before Lady Liberty lifted her lamp, we were the wretched refuse on the teeming shore. We believed in the shelter of America, in the compassion of America, in the opportunity of America. We came and became Americans.

Emma Lazarus would have been so proud. But Éamon de Valera would not. Ireland’s genuinely nationalist post-independence leader liked to give St Patrick’s Day speeches himself, his 1943 effort, known as “The Ireland That We Dreamed Of,” being so different from the globalist words of Connolly, Higgins, and Kenny, as to almost emanate from the throat of a whole different species. Its most justly famous passage is worth citing in full:

The ideal Ireland that we would have, the Ireland that we dreamed of, would be the home of a people who valued material wealth only as a basis for right living, of a people who, satisfied with frugal comfort, devoted their leisure to the things of the spirit – a land whose countryside would be bright with cozy homesteads, whose fields and villages would be joyous with the sounds of industry, with the romping of sturdy children, the contest of athletic youths and the laughter of maidens, whose firesides would be forums for the wisdom of serene old age. The home, in short, of a people living the life that God desires that men should live. With the tidings that make such an Ireland possible, St. Patrick came to our ancestors fifteen hundred years ago promising happiness here no less than happiness hereafter. It was the pursuit of such an Ireland that later made our country worthy to be called the island of saints and scholars. It was the idea of such an Ireland – happy, vigorous, spiritual – that fired the imagination of our poets; that made successive generations of patriotic men give their lives to win religious and political liberty; and that will urge men in our own and future generations to die, if need be, so that these liberties may be preserved … We of this time, if we have the will and active enthusiasm, have the opportunity to inspire and move our generation in like manner. We can do so by keeping this thought of a noble future for our country constantly before our eyes, ever seeking in action to bring that future into being, and ever remembering that it is for our nation as a whole that future must be sought.

An AI-prompt to make a picture out of de Valera’s words generates a dreamy if unrealistic image like this, far removed from the multinational slop of the 2026 Shannon SCP poster.

Today, sadly, through the best efforts of his treacherous successors, the pictured Ireland that de Valera dreamed of has become more of a total nightmare, as recent headlines like the following clearly demonstrate (from here, here and here).

FOREIGN NATIONALS CHARGED IN ALMOST 1 IN 3 KILLINGS OF WOMEN IN PAST 5 YEARS

Convicted rapist only in Ireland a few days before raping and falsely imprisoning a young woman

THE MASTURBATING MENACE: HOW THE JUSTICE SYSTEM TOLERATED KADIMA MBUYE

That final one there is about a man from the Democratic Republic of Congo who was caught with his pants down masturbating in front of a bedridden woman recovering from surgery in a Limerick hospital. She attempted to avoid being raped by pretending to be asleep; what will the Ireland she dreamed of whilst dozing off have been like? Surely not one “of a people living the life that God desires that men should live,” like de Valera had once wanted.

Fingal’s Slave

The unlikely excuse of the Congolese “Masturbating Menace” for committing numerous similar offenses was that perverted asylum center staff had slipped “sex tablets” into his food for no apparent reason, thus making him a literal slave to his appetites. Also a foreign slave was St Patrick himself, being kidnapped from England by criminal Irishmen and hauled away across the sea to be forced to work as a herdsman by his captives during the fifth century, before escaping home, converting to Christianity, then returning back to the Emerald Isle to chase the snakes of paganism away and turn all the inhabitants towards Christ. This well-known history allowed President Connolly to further absurdly present the man, in her 2026 St Patrick’s Day speech, as being a kind of early anti-slavery NGO employee who was “trafficked across the Irish Sea” before returning and “giving voice. . . to fostering an awareness of the consequences of slavery.”

I think he spent rather more time “giving voice” to the Good Word of the Bible than anything else, but Connolly shamelessly manipulated his biography to urge her post-countrymen to throw open their borders to millions of Muslims in his name, this surely being what the noted Catholic missionary would have wanted:

The story of [St] Patrick’s life serves as a reminder of the resilience and courage of migrants, the invaluable contributions that they have made, and continue to make, to the countries they now call home, sometimes even in the face of great adversity. [St] Patrick’s story speaks not only to the Ireland of the 5th century, but to the millions still subjected to trafficking, forced labor and displacement today. As we recall the life of [St] Patrick, we invoke his spirit and acknowledge our shared responsibilities as global citizens. We stand in solidarity with those who find themselves in vulnerable and dangerous circumstances. [St] Patrick’s story invites us to respond with hospitality and kindness to those suffering the consequences of war and displacement, those fleeing their countries because of persecution or violence.

The irony is that the immigrants are actually the ones bringing slavery back into Ireland. Nigerian criminal gangs are trafficking women into the country from Africa after forcing them to participate in bizarre voodoo rituals back home, before telling them that they are now cursed, and the only way to avoid being killed by angry spirits is to agree to enter into a life of sex-slavery in places like Dublin and Cork as cheap urban prostitutes. Irish Lefties like President Connolly need to be careful that, by lying that St Patrick was the patron saint of slavery, they don’t accidentally end up making him the patron saint of slave-drivers instead.

Sodom and Begorrah!

Connolly is not alone. There is a persistent effort not only from secularists like her, but from misguided Left-wing Catholics too, to misrepresent St Patrick as a man who devoted his life not towards saving souls, but towards a quasi-Marxist, anti-colonial, anti-slavery, “opposition to structural injustice,” as with the below repurposing of his stained-glass image.

This just isn’t true, though. They make him sound like Greta Thunberg (hence the green?), or George Soros (hence the crook?). But he lived 1,500 years ago and was a Catholic bishop. He would have thought “progressives” like Catherine Connolly, with her promotion of transgenderism and abortion, are destined to burn in hellfire for all eternity. These cretins’ inversion of him is total. Here’s an Irish St Patrick’s Day Parade logo from 2023. It features one of the snakes he was supposed to have miraculously driven out of Ireland—in the old myth, a symbolic metaphor for pagan devils. This would be like having a “Reconquista Day” parade poster in Spain with an image of Muhammad on it, or a VJ Day Parade with giant photos of Emperor Hirohito on the banners.

That’s a pink snake pictured there, you’ll note, and St Patrick is now the patron saint of those, too, with radical queers having their own March 17 parades also, like New York’s “St Pat’s For All” which are so inclusive they are presided over not by Irish Catholic Bishops, but Native Indian witch-doctors, and celebrate less the Irish than an arbitrary assortment of AIDS patients, black American slaves, and Latinos. Despite this, the whole shambles is still funded by the Irish Government’s “Emigrant Support Program” nonetheless. Why? How are Native American Indians Irish emigrants? Admittedly, a lot of American blacks are called Tyrone, but probably not after the Northern Irish county of their supposed “ancestry.”

Also in New York, the new Muslim Mayor Zohran Mamdani marked St Patrick’s Day this year by transforming it into a celebration of Palestine, not Ireland, comparing the Irish’s colonization by London to Gaza’s colonization by Tel Aviv, and wrapping a metaphorical tea-towel around St Patrick’s unwilling head. Isn’t that a form of colonization in itself? He even went so far as to seemingly compare 1980s IRA hunger-strikers like Bobby Sands to Hamas hunger-strikers in Palestine; I’m not sure if absolutely all of the hungry Palestinians are starving themselves voluntarily at the moment you know, Zohran.

A typical hunger-striking member of the IRA (Islamic Republican Army)

Forced Hibernation of Hibernian Nation

In America in particular, the specifically Irish tradition of specifically Irish immigrants holding St Patrick’s Day Parades has been disfigured more and more into a generic St Immigrants of All Nationalities pseudo-tradition, as back in Shannon. From Atlanta, Georgia, we have a university professor writing the following in the Irish Times: “Imagine a St Patrick’s Day parade that, over time, included Chinese dragons, Mexican mariachi bands, Caribbean steel drummers and Korean acrobats, all marching alongside green-clad Irish pipers and step-dancers.” I’ll imagine that when the Muslims have an Eid prayer-festival full of Catholic bishops, Jewish rabbis, and Satanist high-priests.

Reimagining St Patrick’s Day as St Any Auld Fecker’s Day instead, the professor in question, James Flannery, helped organize an annual essay contest for school students across Georgia on the “true” meaning of St Patrick’s Day, carrying a prize of $1,000. Flannery describe its inaugural winner like this:

In the first year of the contest, a 15-year-old girl described the experience of her grandfather emigrating to the United States to escape the atrocities of Adolf Hitler as well as her mother’s experience fleeing the terrorism of the Shining Path [Maoist guerillas] of her native Peru. She concluded her paper by drawing a connection with St Patrick’s Day: ‘Millions of people who are neither Irish nor Christian celebrate the holiday because the Irish represent us all. The Irish fled their country in search of a better way of life just as other immigrants have. They shared their traditions with us and brightened our lives with their celebrations just as many other immigrants have. St Patrick’s Day is really a tribute to all the immigrants, and a way to celebrate our country as well as all the people who helped make it what it is today.’ When she finished reading it, the audience leapt to its feet in a standing ovation.

So St Patrick was an early Peruvian Jew now, too, then.

In the New York Times, one equally counterintuitive St Patrick’s Day op-ed ran with the headline “It’s About Immigrants Not Irishness.” Again, purely in the interests of interracial equality, let’s have a celebration of whiteness as well as blackness this Juneteenth, then, as millions of white people have been enslaved down the centuries too, not just blacks—St Patrick, for example. We could call the whole thing “Sold-Down-The-River-Dance Day.” If the Left want to co-opt St Paddy as a dubious symbol of their own chosen anti-white cause, why can’t pro-whites do the same? Because that would be racist, of course!

Predictably, the only people denied an ethnic holiday to themselves on St Patrick’s Day are ethnic Irishmen. Boston is perhaps the US city most associated with Irishness, which in 2022 led a group of proud American-Irishmen turning up in the streets on March 17 to protest against their ancestral parade being taken over by gangs of random Peruvians in kippahs, brandishing a banner with a shamrock on it reading “KEEP BOSTON IRISH.”

The parade organizers subsequently took measures to prevent a repeat of the “speech-crime.” Dave Falvey, one of the parade organizers, said that, “As a Jewish-American, it [the men’s “racism”] hits especially close to home for me.” Boston’s mayor Michelle Wu, whose name is not characteristically Hibernian either, added that “we will not be intimidated in our work to build a city for everyone.” Everyone except Irishmen who want to see their own national holiday celebrated as an actual expression of Irishness, as opposed to a celebration of its complete and total reverse by a Left-wing Taiwanese politician. What next? St Patrick’s Day being reclaimed for Nigeria instead? Actually. . . yes.

Amusingly, on that AI slop-image of St Patrick’s Day I generated earlier, did you notice the algorithm accidentally confused the Irish flag with the Nigerian one?

Just a silly mistake, because Emerald Ireland is so innately associated with the color green? Or something more significant? Maybe the AI wasn’t merely hallucinating, or quite as electronically retarded as it initially seemed, and was trying to tell us something important here. . . because, looking it up, I find St Patrick is today also the patron saint of Nigeria as well as of Ireland! More on this bizarre multiracial development next time.