The settler class claimed an Irish identity that excluded Irish natives

Evidence

Swift was a member of the Anglo-Irish propertied class, itself resentful of mercantilist restrictions imposed by the Crown. In the eighteenth century this class began to regard itself as Irish rather than English, and moreover as the true representatives of Ireland, without reference to six-sevenths of the population (counting both Catholics and Dissenters). Seizing on the difficulties Britain was undergoing with the rebellion in the American colonies, the Anglo-Irish landholders launched a movement for free trade and legislative independence, under the leadership of Henry Grattan. — Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, 131

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial exclusion categories sedimented into the national identity of the colonized — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 463; Religious identity racialized Irish Catholics as a separate inferior race; English colonial ideology toward Native Americans and blacks was recycled from its Irish conquest (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Settler identity depends constitutively on the colonized it wishes to erase. #corroborates (0.84) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 2105
• Colonial exclusion categories sedimented into the national identity of the colonized #expands (0.82) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 463
• Ireland’s Catholics were a colonially constructed racial caste before emigrating #corroborates (0.80) — Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, 130
• Close proximity to the colonized intensified settlers’ drive for racial distinction #expands (0.79) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1370
• Religious identity racialized Irish Catholics as a separate inferior race #expands (0.78)
• Sacralized nationalist myth suppresses concrete land history and indigenous presence #exemplifies (0.77) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 355
• Racial categorization first targeted Ireland through internal colonialism #corroborates (0.76) — , Stephanie B. Martens - Civilization and…, 26
• Whiteness was a legally contested category that the Irish did not automatically possess #qualifies (0.75) — Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, 150
• English colonial ideology toward Native Americans and blacks was recycled from its Irish conquest #corroborates (0.74)