A lot of people are unaware of the sectarian nature of the anti-migrant rioting in Northern Ireland.
Those who have shown up to riot have mostly been teens and young men from Protestant, pro-monarchy backgrounds.
Catholic, small-r republican Northern Irish have not mobilized in sizable numbers. Irish republicanism (through groups like Sinn Féin) has long allied itself with militant movements in the third world. You can see it today through their murals in Catholic areas, which emphasise solidarity with Muslim-Arab, Latin American and black migrants.
In Northern Ireland, it has been Protestant unionists who are most vocal against mass migration into the UK. They sometimes even burn migrant boat effigies in their bonfire traditions.
Photos from my trip last year to Belfast.
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