bardicverse on 17 June 2008
Samuel - I was pretty sure that northern ireland became part of the UK around the 1920s? Prior to that, Britain had full rule over Ireland since the time of Cromwell in the mid 1600s. In 1924 or so, Britain gave the Irish independence, save all for 4 Protestant counties which swore loyalty to the crown, which became Northern Ireland (and thus formed the bloodshed between NI and Ireland until just recently)
