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If Ireland was on the right of the UK

completedit

How different would our history have been!

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Ush1

Culchies would still call Dubs West Brits, crazy foos!

Wild Field 1831

We'd have colder, continental winters and warmer drier summers.

completedit

Wild Field 1831 wrote: »

We'd have colder, continental winters and warmer drier summers.

brb just heading down the baltic to st.petersburg

Wild Field 1831

Ush1 wrote: »

Culchies would still call Dubs West Brits, crazy foos!

Dublin would be called something like 'Dubsbourg'

completedit

Think about it. We'd be nothing like we are now that's for sure. Except for being an island nation and the character traits that come with that.
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skallywag

I am sure there would still be the same amount of skunk available to prompt someone on boards.rightsidedIE to start a thread postulating what may have been if Ireland had been located to the left.

branie2

Ush1 wrote: »

Culchies would still call Dubs West Brits, crazy foos!

East Brits, more like

completedit

skallywag wrote: »

I am sure there would still be the same amount of skunk available to prompt someone on boards.rightsidedIE to start a thread postulating what may have been if Ireland had been located to the left.

I'm interested in the timelines and how history could have gone if you change a variable. Alternative history and geographies. Interesting stuff if you let the noggin wander. Just harmless fun

skallywag

completedit wrote: »

Interesting stuff if you let the noggin wander. Just harmless fun

I agree completely.

Guy:Incognito

Are we talking Ireland and Britain swapping places or Britain being where it is now and Ireland being to the right?

completedit

Interesting. I always thought of it as us swapping places. But for this thought experiment I'm talking smack bang between Britain and the Scandis.

Looks like we get all that Norwegian oil. Big bizness.

Tzardine

Galway would likely be the capital.

patmac

completedit wrote: »

Interesting. I always thought of it as us swapping places. But for this thought experiment I'm talking smack bang between Britain and the Scandis.

Looks like we get all that Norwegian oil. Big bizness.

We’d have given it away unlike the Norwegians.

Vita nova

Ush1 wrote: »

Culchies would still call Dubs West Brits, crazy foos!

Well probably something equally egregious if you still called them "culchies".

D3V!L

We'd all be speaking some Nordic language

DrGreenThumb82

Imagine the absolute ****ing shambles that would be the channel tunnel project from Cork to France.

Ted_YNWA

DrGreenThumb82 wrote: »

Imagine the absolute ****ing shambles that would be the channel tunnel project from Cork to France.

Imagine the French trying to understand the Cork accent.

branie2

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Imagine the French trying to understand the Cork accent.

Ooh eez theez boy?!

[Deleted User]

I thought the OP meant political-right, as opposed to East.

We'd probably be Belgium-in-the-sea, a country with no real indigenous culture or national cohesion, more of a patch of ground that became a centuries-old battlefield. That's all Belgium is, which is partly why it was chosen for the EU capital.

rossie1977

We would be the Dutch..

The chan chan man

The right?! You mean East?! Jasus, what are they teaching in geography classes these days!

corner of hells

Would we own the Isle of Man?

biko

Tzardine wrote: »

Galway would likely be the capital.

Cork would still claim to be the real capital.

A2LUE42

So no rockall then ?

[Deleted User]

We'd be swimming in oil and giving away our natural gas to Shell.

s1ippy

D3V!L wrote: »

We'd all be speaking some Nordic language

Nope, the entire western world would be speaking as Gaeilge.

bucketybuck

If Ireland were a smaller island to the right of Britain it would have been fully conquered and assimilated by the English centuries ago, as opposed to the mild occupation that did occur.

A little island beside the Atlantic is one thing, a smaller but strategically vital island between Great Britain and the continent is another thing entirely, they would have taken it, held it and made it completely and utterly theirs.

murpho999

bucketybuck wrote: »

If Ireland were a smaller island to the right of Britain it would have been fully conquered and assimilated by the English centuries ago, as opposed to the mild occupation that did occur.

A little island beside the Atlantic is one thing, a smaller but strategically vital island between Great Britain and the continent is another thing entirely, they would have taken it, held it and made it completely and utterly theirs.

Have you ever read a history book? A mild occupation? Plantations, Cromwell, Penal Laws, Famine, Sectarianism, Black & Tans just for starters

They're still here in part of it by the way.

Feisar

murpho999 wrote: »

Have you ever read a history book? A mild occupation? Plantations, Cromwell, Penal Laws, Famine, Sectarianism, Black & Tans just for starters

They're still here in part of it by the way.

Yes but bucketybuck's point stands. Go back to Roman times, they never came to Ireland. Swap Ireland and the UK, we would have been under Roman control. Same applies to the Normans going to England.

[Deleted User]

murpho999 wrote: »

Have you ever read a history book? A mild occupation? Plantations, Cromwell, Penal Laws, Famine, Sectarianism, Black & Tans just for starters

They're still here in part of it by the way.

Yeah but that was mostly just the Brits bribing, oppressing and occasionally fighting lesser-armed natives.

This would have been a different country, had another European power been fighting for the island too.

There'd have been centuries of epic battles and sieges. We'd be Malta 3.0