The British Empire: Not all Bad

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There were Irish people involved from the bottom to the top, from regular soldiers right up to the Prime Minister.

 

I would use the term Irish loosely there. Id say most of these "Irish" you speak of are unionists who came from the island but were of scottish planter ancestry

 

The British Army and Navy was full of the Irish.

 

And that's bollocks.

And those people were as Irish as the 'rest'.

 

That's like the ****e you read in the Telegraph. We aren't called 'Great' Britain because we're good at stealing other people's land you know.

 

Did someone mention pirates?
Irish pirates:
Anne Bonny
Edward England
Walter Kennedy

 

were they now? Did they make and effort to endear themselves upon the indigeonous population and work with them cooperatively? No they murdered and oppressed them on a large scale and cotinued to do so, treating them as second class citizens, until very recently.
Did they make anneffort to immerse themselves into the indigeonous culture? No, they manufactured their own and have been attempting to impose it on them every 12th for long enough?
Did they make an effort to learn the language? No they also have tried to manufacture their own called 'Ulster scots' whish is basically a scottish dialect written down

As Irish as the rest, dont make me laugh

 

Irish slave traders
Irish role in the slave trade

Complicit.

 

Where the Brits excelled was their divide and conquer attitude. Turn up in India and say, "right, who the **** hates who around here?" followed by a bit of politicking and ten minutes later you own a continent.

 

A few years later some u-boats turned up to help ye's oot

 

Did you know that around 75% of the island of Montserrat has Irish decent? Do you know where this originates. Cromwell decreeing to hell or Connaught for the indigeonous population. They could choose to give up their arable land to the settlers and move to the unarable rocky Connaught coast or go to hell. Hell was slavery in the Carribean. Much of the early slave trade included the trade of Irish slaves. Complicit? Still dont see it

 

I've given you a list of Irish pirates who plundered Spanish ships and a couple of decent sources about Irish people who bought and sold slaves yet you still blame us Brits 100%?

Maybe I can dig up an Irish Governor of India or similar.

 

Bigot

 

Do you consider yourself Irish?

 

Ooh you have him in a sticky spot there, I like it.

 

For what it's worth, I don't consider myself Irish in the slightest.

 

If I lived in the age were there was one country known as Ireland then perhaps so.

So a Scottish person who was born in Scotland to maybe Irish parents wouldn't be considered Scottish in your opinion?

 

SmackheadDickx is the thickest ****er on this forum.

Constantly talking ****e, Britain evil, Irish Caffliks amazing and kind, Irish Protestants, not real Irish.

Best ignore this bigoted cock botherer.