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"1801: Ireland established, in effect, as a colony of Great Britain" In short, the Dublin parliament was abolished, and Ireland was folded into the United King
by cafard 4y ago
"1801: Ireland established, in effect, as a colony of Great Britain"
In short, the Dublin parliament was abolished, and Ireland was folded into the United Kingdom. Its independence was pretty limited before that.
- disgruntledphd2 4y agoFor the previous century, yes. However the British crown power was relatively contested up till the Battle of the Boyne.
- klipt 4y agoBut thanks to that tangled history, the Irish passport is now one of the best in the world, since post-Brexit, Irish citizens are the only nationality with freedom to live anywhere in the EU and the UK.
- nibbleshifter 4y agoEven more OP is being from Northern Ireland, where (to simplify somewhat) you are basically able to claim both Irish and British citizenship and have both passports. Which is great, because it gives you the maximum possible options to get the fuck out of Northern Ireland until it sorts itself out.
- bennysonething 4y agoI doubt it will ever sort itself out :) (I have two passports)
- cafard 4y agoAt the Battle of the Boyne, the forces of two contenders for the English crown fought it out. (English crown, because the battle preceded the Act of Union bringing Scotland and England together as the United Kingdom.) But yes, I see what you mean. [edit: Yes, and Scottish and Irish crowns, as I should have said.]
- geenew 4y agoIt's hard to call it a 'colony' if its citizens were as much citizens of the mother country as any other citizen.
- ac2u 4y agoI think you’re letting semantics get in the way of the raw truth. Don’t recall the other citizens (in Britain) of said “mother” country having their non-potato crops exported while they starved. If colony is being used as a pejorative here, it’s deserved to the point where it overrides the semantics of governance and citizenship.
- messe 4y agoIt's also misleading to cite 1801 as the date of Ireland becoming a colony. Ireland was pretty much the prototype for the rest of Britain's overseas colonies, starting with the plantations of Ulster in the 1600s[1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantation_of_Ulster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantation_of_Ulster
- dragonwriter 4y agoViewing colonization of Ireland as starting with the Plantation of Ulster is misleading, since the Plantation was motivated by the fact that Ulster was the least effectively colonized part of Ireland at that point. (Which, I guess, further underlines the error of saying colonization of Ireland started two hundred years after the Plantation.)
- messe 4y agoWell... yes, but also no. I bring up the plantation of Ulster because it has the most direct comparison to more recent colonization efforts; that makes it easy to draw a nice line in the sand saying "this is when it happened". With the rest of Ireland, it's a slower process that started with the norman invasion and isn't nearly as clear cut.