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It's the Catholic-Protestant history. Not Brits living in NI. The Northern Irish 6 counties did not want to unify with Ireland when Ireland was born in 1919. T
by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
It's the Catholic-Protestant history. Not Brits living in NI.
The Northern Irish 6 counties did not want to unify with Ireland when Ireland was born in 1919. Those 6 were the protestant majority counties, who wished to stay with the UK.
Changing demographics and birth rates over the following century, increasing secularisation in the Republic, and increasing numbers who simply don't care about religion makes that far less of the issue.
- osullivj 7y agoCatholic/Protestant history and the British colonisation of Ireland are inextricably linked: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantation_of_Ulster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantation_of_Ulster
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoYes of course, but there comes a point where they see themselves as indigenous Northern Irish, or Irish, not British or colonists. Just as those ruling in London no longer see themselves as Norman French, or in my UK county Danish.