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As an Irish person, I am having a lot of trouble believing this guy is really Irish, for many reasons. At the time he was growing up, Ireland was very much a moncultural, mono-racial society with very few exceptions. Northern Ireland (where he says he's from) was bi-cultural (unionists and nationalists claiming British or Irish heritage) but in some ways that made it even MORE unlikely that someone from a more foreign culture would live there (Belfast wasn't exactly a popular destination for immigrants in the 70's and 80's. The influx of immigration to Ireland didn't really start until around the early 2000's. I grew up in Ireland and pretty much everyone was white, Irish and Catholic (or the occasional protestant). OK, so this guy to me - doesn't look Irish at all, has a surname "Tsarion" which is not Irish, doesn't have any kind of Irish accent (his accent is weird, I can't place it), talks about growing up in Belfast in terms that sound a bit nonsensical (e.g. I heard him talking about everyone going out to wash their cars on Sunday mornings). His take on Irish folklore - much of which IS very old and with spiritual undertones, sounds very twisted and new-agey. Finally, while Irish people are either extremely proud and boastful of their nationality, or else inwardly embarrassed on first to bash Irish nationalism (it's a complicated history) - either way I have never in my life met a single Irish person who thinks we are "the chosen people" or "the real Jews" etc. There are no such stories or theories and if you asked any Irish person about this they would think you are crazy. Tsarion seems to be mixing Irish folklore and fairytales in with new age spirituality and other things, maybe in a effort to attract a new target audience? Whatever that audience is though - it's not the Irish, so don't blame us, please I checked his wiki story and it says he grew up in Belfast, but then wiki is not a reliable source of truth, especially when conspiracy theorists are writing the biographies.