What would Ireland be like if the UK didn't exist?

Daegerty

A bit more isolated and self sufficient maybe like Iceland? Certainly a more interesting place to visit anyway I reckon but the economy would never have been as strong

Since we have a unique inability to think for ourselves, which country would we look at to copy their laws, shops, tv shows and ideas from? Holland, France, Belgium?

m@cc@

Daegerty wrote: »

A bit more isolated and self sufficient maybe like Iceland? Certainly a more interesting place to visit anyway I reckon but the economy would never have been as strong

Since we have a unique inability to think for ourselves, which country would we look at to copy their laws, shops, tv shows and ideas from? Holland, France, Belgium?

Collectively or individually? I'd beg to differ on both counts.

Senna

We'd all be speaking Irish.

admiralofthefleet

Daegerty wrote: »

A bit more isolated and self sufficient maybe like Iceland? Certainly a more interesting place to visit anyway I reckon but the economy would never have been as strong

Since we have a unique inability to think for ourselves, which country would we look at to copy their laws, shops, tv shows and ideas from? Holland, France, Belgium?

Atlantis

orourkeda

we'd still be bitching about the vikings

Oranage2

English wouldnt be our first language -
I reckon we'd be as economically viable as Haiti -
Famines every so often -
Dictatorship -

mikemac

Daegerty wrote: »

Holland, France, Belgium?

Spain!
Big connection to Spain, sure look at Galway and Spanish Arch and other connections

They steal our fish, we worship their football players

orourkeda

Senna wrote: »

We'd all be speaking Irish.

no we wouldnt

Kevin Duffy

Hmmm...since the science of tectonics says...well, what it says, I'm gonna go with we'd be part of continental Europe.

orourkeda

feelingstressed wrote: »

Spain!

Big connection to Spain, sure look at Galway and Spanish Arch and other connections

They steal our fish, we worship their football players

Like messi the argentinian

Praetorian Saighdiuir

No Tesco?

My name is URL

We'd be German

Chnandler Bong

We would'nt have any football teams to support

Kevin Duffy

orourkeda wrote: »

Like messi the argentinian

More like Ronaldo the Portugese

m@cc@

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3L0B2At_W4

Chnandler Bong

Kevin Duffy wrote: »

More like Ronaldo the Portugese

And Mrs Fernando Torres.... oh no wait:D

Saila

spain, we are descended from the basques

van der vart

Bobby Sands would be President

PeterIanStaker

We'd be more Norse and Breton influenced, if the Anglo - Saxons weren't added to the mix. Alternatively, perhaps the Romans would have colonised the island of Ireland?

Jonniealan

We'd be Krauts !

Frankfurter and sour kraut would be teh national dish

ejmaztec

People here would be all bald from scratching their heads, trying to figure out who to blame for everything, and then finally decide it was those bastards on Greenland wot dun it.

galwayrush

We would have beaten the Mayans to self destruction.

bhur

m@cc@

Let's not beat about the bush, we're not asking 'what Ireland would be like if the UK didn't exist?', but rather 'what Ireland would be like if England didn't exist?'

ejmaztec

m@cc@ wrote: »

Let's not beat about the bush, we're not asking 'what Ireland would be like if the UK didn't exist?', but rather 'what Ireland would be like if England didn't exist?'

We'd all be wearing tartan kilts and speaking Welsh.

cosanostra

I take it we are working on the basis that all discoveries and inventions associated with Britain would still exist?

Surfing conditions would be better on the east coast.

mikemac

We'd be rich!

North Sea oil

spdmrphy

Saila wrote: »

spain, we are descended from the basques

If we were Basque, we wouldn't be Spanish!

ETA would have a lot more gingers in their ranks too.

m@cc@

cosanostra wrote: »

I take it we are working on the basis that all discoveries and inventions associated with Britain would still exist?

Depends since Britain is obviously different from the UK.

KeithAFC

Would be a lack of culture and brilliance in the world.....

m@cc@

spdmrphy wrote: »

If we were Basque, we wouldn't be Spanish!

Previous poster never implied this.

Wolfe Tone

KeithAFC wrote: »

Would be a lack of culture and brilliance in the world.....

Dont ever change Keith...



There would be no St Patrick for a start! Would the Romans have invaded here instead maybe?

KeithAFC

Scotland would have two states instead. :pac:

Biggins

Daegerty wrote: »

What would Ireland be like if the UK didn't exist?

Well we wouldn't have these questions thank god!

m@cc@

The straight answer is that if the UK didn't exist then Ireland wouldn't exist.

orourkeda

van der vart wrote: »

Bobby Sands would be President

Hell no.

Lapin

We'd find another old enemy to moan about and whinge about 800 years of angst and woe.

Then we'd support their top sports teams, watch their tv programmes, speak their language and the shops in our main streets would be just like theirs.

orourkeda

Wolfe Tone wrote: »

Dont ever change Keith...



There would be no St Patrick for a start! Would the Romans have invaded here instead maybe?

No. They'd probably have discovered America instead

Lapin

KeithAFC wrote: »

Scotland would have two states instead. :pac:

Eh?

Scotland wouldn't exist according to the thread title.

Unpossible

My history isn't great, but I think we had our own parliment before the UK was formed and the country was beginning to get industrialised. So if the UK hadn't come into being we would probably have ended up like Scotland. Who knows if we would have become a republic or at the least, independant from England.



edit: some people seem to be confusing Great Britian with the UK

orourkeda

Chnandler Bong wrote: »

We would'nt have any football teams to support

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fprSX-lYlYQ

Celly Smunt

there'd be no chips.

Celly Smunt

orourkeda wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fprSX-lYlYQ

scum.

Kevin Duffy

pmcmahon wrote: »

there'd be no chips.

What, the Italians wouldn't come over? :pac:

m@cc@

Lapin wrote: »

Eh?

Scotland wouldn't exist according to the thread title.

Depends on whether they meant geographically or politically.

Celly Smunt

Kevin Duffy wrote: »

What, the Italians wouldn't come over? :pac:

walter raleigh

ejmaztec

KeithAFC wrote: »

Scotland would have two states instead. :pac:

And thanks to the non-existence of Henry VIII, there wouldn't be any protestants in either of 'em, and we'd all be pagans:P

abelard

Is it at all possible that a string Irish monarchy would have established itself. Then in the following few centuries we could have become fairly rich through our strategic position (without the UK being there) on maritime routes between the Mediterranean/North Africa and the Scandinavian countries/Germany/Russia and later Europe and the Americas. We could have even become somewhat of a maritime power, and dare I say may have had our own modest colonial possessions.

All pretty unlikely though.

spdmrphy

pmcmahon wrote: »

walter raleigh

Twas the spaniards who brought it to Europe, Raleigh just brought it to England.

Celly Smunt

spdmrphy wrote: »

Twas the spaniards who brought it to Europe, Raleigh just brought it to England.

but the english brought it to Ireland