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  1. The Irish Question

    Yes, people did talk about improving farming efficiency, but largely in the north. The issue is very different tenancy agreements - the Ulster custom was much more lenient towards the tenant - for instance landlords had no power to evict tenants if they paid their rent, and tenants also had...

  2. AHC: Make the Reivers a kind of bandit-colonial force

    To be fair, they were used as a colonial force - they were the ones who settled Ulster, and they really did a number on establishing a British identity there :p.

  3. From Embassy Row In Lima To The Kips Of Belfast

    Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to portray Catholics as blameless victims, but it's a fact that they suffered a fair degree of repression - gerrymandering, favouritism and workplace discrimination from their colleagues were rampant. I simply view 1969 as the spark that set off a powder...

  4. From Embassy Row In Lima To The Kips Of Belfast

    Actually you had the first Troubles in the 20s, followed by minor IRA campaigns building up into a crescendo of fail in the IRA Border Campaign in the early 1950s. The 1969 Troubles were only the most recent in a long series. It's simplistic to say that Catholics and Protestants got on before...

  5. From Embassy Row In Lima To The Kips Of Belfast

    ... Which is totally why it was the Labour government in the 40's that committed to maintaining Northern Ireland as part of Britain until the majority of the populace wanted otherwise. Y'know, before we had a nuclear deterrent, or boomers. Although, apparently the town I'm from was targeted by...

  6. Keep English language in England

    Wasn't Scotland officially English-speaking at Court from the 12th century? The east coast spoke English almost entirely, it was only the west and highlands that spoke gaelic. Even with a surviving Danelaw, you've still got pockets of English-speakers in Lothian and the rump-Northumbria.

  7. English protastantism with Henry VIII' break with Rome

    Protestantism in England isn't just going to disappear if you get rid of Henry's formation of Anglicanism. You're more likely to get a situation like the French Wars of Religion - the richest, most politically important parts of England were already turning Protestant at this time, including...

  8. "Immediate and terrible war": Something even shitter for Ireland

    The point was things *had* started in Ulster, but Craig basically just interned everyone who so much as looked like they might have IRA sympathies, so it fizzled out. You had mortar attacks on troops up in Carnlough for instance, followed by the removal of half its male population to Larne...

  9. "Immediate and terrible war": Something even shitter for Ireland

    ... if they get supplies from somewhere. I can imagine the British Army really not fucking about and getting the UVF as a sort of even worse Black and Tans to do their real dirty work. A few hundred rifles, a couple of machine guns and explosives "stolen" from St. Patrick's barracks in Ballymena...

  10. "Immediate and terrible war": Something even shitter for Ireland

    Didn't Michael Collins say that the Treaty was a godsend, as the IRA had less than a week's ammunition left? That and the fact that virtually every IRA man in eastern Ulster was sitting in a prison ship in Larne harbour. As far as I can remember, the RAF were just about to start deploying...

  11. Alternate names for the Euro

    The Denarius. After the last time Europe had a semblance of unity :p

  12. Your Favorite Period of European History from 1300-1900

    Definitely the industrial revolution. A product of being brought up on Fred Dibnah's shows and engineers for grandfathers, I think. :p

  13. Map Thread IX

    I like. True Britain stands defiant :p

  14. What if Edward Bruce Succeeds in his Irish Campaign?

    Possible, maybe. He'd need O'Neill support, and O'Neill of Tyrone would be almost certainly a stronger power than Edward Bruce, even if the latter took the entirety of the English-supporting areas under the Bissetts, Savages and de Mandevilles. The problem is that establishing Edward as a...

  15. What if Edward Bruce Succeeds in his Irish Campaign?

    This is the easiest way. Have Franco-English rivalry on the continent flare up slightly earlier, so that Robert the Bruce's renewal of the Auld Alliance in 1326 comes forward a bit. That way, England will be fighting with one arm tied with continental commitments. Although, if this happened, the...

  16. What if Edward Bruce Succeeds in his Irish Campaign?

    Edward Bruce *was* appointed High King, in 1315, or at least was recognised as such by the northern gaelic Irish lords. The problem was that the Pope refused to retract the Laudabiliter and appoint Edward the position, when he was asked by Irish nobles in 1317. If you could change this, that...

  17. USA Occupies present day Canada during War of 1812

    Considering that one of the reasons for the American Revolution was the Quebec Act, which granted some, limited rights to the Quebecois and caused massive outrage throughout the 13 Colonies, I doubt America's ability to win hearts and minds in francophone Canada of 1812. America of 1812 isn't...

  18. Once Very Serious Laws Which Lessened Substantially Over Time!

    An ongoing one - the ban on abortions in Northern Ireland at least. They used to prosecute backstreet abortionists and doctors were forbidden to offer the service, now the GP quietly refers the woman to England or Scotland. Stupid situation all the same. :mad:

  19. AHC: Reverse Stereotypes

    This bad teeth one for Britain really gets me - wasn't there evidence last year that said the UK had better dental health than the US for each head of the population? Free dentistry until you're 18 and all that.. America seems to be the only place that believes the UK has awful teeth xD A...

  20. AHC: Reverse Stereotypes

    Reverse Ireland and Scotland's fate in the Reformation. 200 years later, we have industrious, canny and tight-fisted Irishmen and lazy, feckless and priest-ridden Scots, prone to agrarian violence. Both still fond of the drink though. :D
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