04-03-2011, 12:33 PM
(04-03-2011, 12:27 PM)Ordinary Peephole Wrote:(04-03-2011, 12:13 PM)Cracker Wrote: It's more geographical, Duchess. GB took the top part of Ireland. Ireland got PISSED. Top part is Protestant, rest of Ireland is Catholic. The religious descriptor is more about the geographic location...
Norlin Airlann (Northern Ireland in Ulster Scots) is actually a LOT more complicated than that, so complicated that it sometimes hurts my head thinking about its convoluted and complex history.
The population of northern ireland is actually about 60⁄40 protestant/catholic.
My mom's family is from County Fermanagh (sp?) and they are Catholic as shit. hahaha
I don't think there is a way to fix this. I don't see a solution that would make everyone happy. Even if you gave Northern Ireland back, 40% of the people would be irate. It is unfixable.
Bad idea, maybe, to begin with...