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There was a massive dispossession of the Irish from their fertile lands in the east, and they were driven west of the Shannon; in Cromwell’s phrase they could go to “Hell or Connaught.”
The dispossession of Irish Catholic farmers, which took place in successive waves over several centuries, relegated them to the most marginally cultivable pieces of land.
Not so fast, says Weiner: Said's childhood was not "the parable of Palestinian identity" marked by dispossession from a beloved homeland and the subsequent pain of exile.
So long as minorities strike a pose of diasporan dispossession, they give tacit approval to a notion of "prior" Americanness that excludes them.