Blindboy (Host)

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7,390 appearances 9 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 1 Sep

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The Blindboy Podcast · A cultural history of Englishman, Scotsman and Irishman Jokes · 1 Sep 2026 podcast

We'd lost half our population during the famine. voice-verified

So after independence, we just we take back this. voice-verified

A country shaped by fucking colonialism that's just geared towards extraction. voice-verified

No industrial base, no skilled working class we had a peasant class. voice-verified

None of the infrastructure for voice-verified

An economically independent 20th century country. voice-verified

And then you have Dublin, still an absolute shit compared to an equivalent city of its size over in England and Scotland. voice-verified

So in 1973, when we joined the European Economic Community, you have countries like France or Britain or West Germany going fuck. voice-verified

Ireland is in shit. voice-verified

We're just after letting them join the the EU effectively, and Ireland is in a state of poverty. voice-verified

So the EEC had to throw billions at us for rapid modernisation. voice-verified

So we had roads built, telephones, rural electrification, water and storage, all of the infrastructure that we didn't have. voice-verified

European money paid for that. voice-verified

But also, because of colonization, because of 800 years of colonization, we'd missed the Industrial Revolution. voice-verified

So the infrastructure was being paid for to attract foreign investment. voice-verified

That's how we end up in the situation where we are now, where we have fucking no autonomy, and we're a country where the biggest corporations in the world just launder their money in Ireland and don't pay tax. voice-verified

I'm blaming the Brits on that one. voice-verified

That's a big reason for why so. voice-verified

Much of our economy is just going to join corporations and saying, Here, come here, you won't have to pay tax. voice-verified

Just come here, invest a little bit. voice-verified

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