SamuelRSmith said:
@bardicverse: Just checked Wikipedia:
The Treaty of Union, agreed on July 22nd, 1706,[12] and put into effect by the Acts of Union passed by the Parliaments of England and Scotland in 1707, created a political union in the form of a united Kingdom of Great Britain.[13] Almost a century later, the Act of Union 1800 united the Kingdom of Ireland with the Kingdom of Great Britain.[14] Prior to 1707, England and Scotland had existed as separate sovereign and independent states with their own monarchs and political structures from the 9th century. Though the Scottish King, James VI, became King of England as well in 1603, creating a personal union between the kingdoms, the countries had remained separate. On the other hand, the once independent Principality of Wales had fallen under the control of English monarchs from the Statute of Rhuddlan in 1284 and thereafter annexed to England under the Laws in Wales Acts of 1535 and 1542. Ireland had also been brought under English control between 1541 and 1691, but only joined to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801.
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Right, that was the full of Ireland. North Ireland, as we know it today, didn't exist until the loyalists refused to be part of an independent Ireland in the 1920s. What I was saying was that Northern Ireland, as a territory, didn't exist prior to that - the whole island of Ireland was one property of Britain prior to that time. King James was actually executed by the English for rebelling against the English. Oliver Cromwell came along in the 1650s like a madman into Ireland. They say his bloodshed was pretty much a genocide that was only trumped by Hitler. Read up on him in sources not editable. If you're interested in that history, check out "To Hell or Barbados". First half of the book talks about Cromwell's reign over Ireland and England as "Lord Protector" - lots of stuff edited out of the history books for political reasons (aka historical coverups)
