...though I suppose we could go back to the Tudors, or Henry II, but the Ulster Plantations will do...
And the savagery over Home Rule in the 1800s, which would have satisfied many if the British would only have admitted that Ireland didn't belong to them. And the treaty with the Sinn Fein, that cost Michael Collins his life and divided Ireland with the Ulster Exception.
The irony is, when it came down to dividing the Raj, the British didn't like the idea of Pakistan and India as separate states based on religion, and they were right. Boy, were they right. Yet they can live with it, and continue to live with it, when it comes to the nation to their west.
Are the Protestants descriminated against in Ireland? Are the Catholics descriminated against in Ulster? Are the Ulster Prostestants afraid of being treated like equals, or of having done unto them as they have done unto others? One thing they might try to remember: if Ulster joins the rest of Ireland, they will be joining a nation that has lived at relative peace and increasing prosperity since severing their ties with the Empire. The reasonableness bred of peace and prosperity stands a good chance of diluting the impulse toward vengeance.
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- Major Step Against Mick Terrorists
- A novel solution to the problem might be..........
- Yeah!! Screw self-determination!! Yeehah!! (n/t)
- Except for one minor detail, the Protestant Community in Northern Ireland. (n/t)
- The protestant minority. That Britain wants to keep in charge.
- "The protestant minority."
- Finally - an idealogical difference between us. :-)
- I don't see the disagreement (n/t)
- the disagreement
- I think it (like democracy itself) is a question of
- the disagreement
- I don't see the disagreement (n/t)
- The protestant minority. That Britain wants to keep in charge.
- re: Major Step Against Mick Terrorists
- A novel solution to the problem might be..........