Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27966940-20170517013010/@comment-30530552-20170517224651

GreyStark wrote: You have no idea, in 1921 when the Irish war of independence ended, thousands of Anglo Irishmen (that is, people born in Ireland who saw themselves as British) had their land confiscated by the new government. And then we had a civil war over the fact that the treaty that ended the war if independence wars to good to the British Oh, so that explains that whole shpiel with the IRA and what is now considered "Northern Ireland?" Which is still a part of the Commonwealth and (more or less) loyal to it?