Blindboy (Host)

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

Same thing in Spain. voice-verified

In Spain they take the piss out of people from Andalusia because apparently those southern Spanish people have got a ridiculous accent. voice-verified

But also in 1975 when it came to this EEC funding, Kerry was identified as a less favoured voice-verified

area. voice-verified

An area that needed more investment than anywhere else. voice-verified

Cause only a hundred years previously it had been destroyed by the famine. voice-verified

It lost thousands of people. voice-verified

The European investment voice-verified

Made us hyper-aware that we as a nation were seen as rural, backwards, and poor by the rest of Europe. voice-verified

That we required massive charity. voice-verified

So to distance ourselves from that shame, we picked the carry people down at the bottom and said, No, not us, it's them. voice-verified

They're the ones you're thinking of. voice-verified

They're the backwards rural ones, not us up here in Dublin. voice-verified

It comes down to class and money. voice-verified

If you think of those white English working class people in the working men's clubs making the anti-Irish jokes, it's not just to shit on the Irish. voice-verified

It's to try and gain acceptance from the middle classes and the upper classes. voice-verified

Cause if they laugh at those jokes, then it must mean that the English working class are gonna be accepted in the same way that when the voice-verified

Dark poor Irish immigrants went to New York in the eighteen forties and were seen as the absolute bottom of society. voice-verified

It was the Irish people that were the first black and white minstrel performers. voice-verified

The Irish lived in the same New York slums as previously enslaved African Americans. voice-verified

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