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    I live at the liberal straits

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    6. ToadwKirbo on

      The wealth situation in Ireland is now pretty much the opposite… Staying in the U.K. didn’t make them richer after all 🤣

    9. Zealousideal_Till683 on

      It’s largely forgotten now, but there was very nearly a civil war in 1914 over the Liberals passing Home Rule. Carson was prepared to fight, and he had plenty of sympathisers in the military, as the Curragh Mutiny demonstrated. And the Asquith administration wasn’t backing down either.

      Fortunately events in Sarajevo spun out of control and all was well.

    10. Mackey_Corp on

      Not to be a stickler for the little things but isn’t the red hand thing supposed to be a right hand? That one is clearly a left hand, and we all know a red left hand is a commie hand.

    12. Clearer_Concrete on

      Man why didnt the soviets rename the caspian sea, “the gulf of socialism” ,were they stupid?

    18. fibojoly on

      That map is kinda funny, as it makes it look like they used to have Donegal at that time, and later just gave up on it because it’s such dreadful weather and not worth the hassle.

    21. whooo_me on

      Finally, those of us down in the Southern tip of Ireland have some power.

      You want any liberty? It has to come through the Liberal Straits, and we’re blockading it. Muhahaha.

    25. JumpySimple7793 on

      I forgot Newcastle was briefly annexed by Scotland in the early 20th century

    31. Captain_Sterling on

      I lived in Maynooth for 20 years. Uts essentially my hometown now. It’s tiny. The reason they call it maynooth Provence in the map is because there’s a Catholic seminary there. And the unionists were very anti Catholic.

      Edit: I’m playing games with someone there and we’re a little busy t happy for the maynooth call out 😁

    32. Traditional-Storm-62 on

      “prosperity province” today is the poorest part of the island

      how the turns have tabled in the last 100 years

    33. Cloudy_Foliage_7924 on

      “Liberal Straits” is quite a dire place to be.
      You could say it’s dire straits.

    37. emptybamboo on

      And the irony is that Ulster’s industrial base started declining precisely in 1922 when the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland were established.

    41. MoodProsessor on

      The Red Hand of Ulster comes from a legend an old lecturer told my class on my exchange to York a dozen years ago:

      Two families claimed the lands to make their home, and decided it by who could first have their hand touch the sand upon the shore. A feisty rowing competition ensued from a certain distance from shore. As the shore approached, one of the man saw their oblivion, flailing behind the other boat. In an act of desperation, he cut of his hand in the boat, and threw it towards the shore, so that his hand claimed the lands of Ulster. Such is the legend, and the story of the symbol.

    43. wibbly-water on

      The fact that Scotland is in a different colour than the rest of the UK, and also just labelled “Scotland” is the most baffling part of all of this…

    45. CardOk755 on

      Socialism! Must avoid that!

      Let’s forget that independent Ireland has always been conservative.