In the event of united Ireland could DUP attract a significant vote in the Republic / 26 Counties ?

Culturally united is a stretch. That would require communications over distance. There were distinct cultures across the country.

The substance of the point is that the English or the British, depending on your nomenclature, didn't suppress a united nation, as the folk understanding of "800 years of oppression" pretends.

One of the tools of the colonist is to disrupt the indigenous culture, all colonists did this to one degree or another and the British did it here. primarily but not exclusively, by the disruption of the indigenous language, the primary vehicle of culture.

Language is by no means an arbitrary fact of the world, similarly, it is also not any arbitrary fact of colonialism. We ought to consider it as another form of violence imposed upon cultures by colonial rule, as devastatingly treacherous as any other. Of course, there is an obvious distinction between physical and linguistic subjugation, and the previous claim is not to erase this in any element. Linguistic violence itself persists long past the departure of the colonist, it is a violence committed against a very culture, one from which it may never fully recover.

Those who downplay the importance of keeping and reviving the native language are identified in the bolded bit. Along with the 'Ireland was never united until the British came' taunt, they are performing as they were meant to, it's no coincidence and is a hangover of the inferiority complex colonialism worked hard to bestow.

Linguistic Imperialism: Colonial Violence through Language

110 years ago etc Ireland was a single entity within the United Kingdom. If that doesn't count as a nation then neither does England.

If you go back a good few centuries before that, Ireland was divided- with various clans etc fighting for power and territory. There doesn't seem to have been any individual who had total control. Some would say Boru seems to have come closest, athough he may have achieved this momentarily before dying.

The O'Neills ruled a lot of Ireland at one stage, but there always seems to have been opposition from other provincial kings.

Anyway back to the topic of the thread which the OP asked: "In the event of united Ireland could DUP attract a significant vote in the Republic / 26 Counties"….the OP is assuming that in the hypothetical case of a UI it would be a peaceful one and one where unionist views would be respected and tolerated. The last time the British left (just over a century ago) many Protestants were burnt out, murdered, disappeared, intimidated, forced to leave. It would be a brave DUP person who would stand for election in the 26 counties, when you remember the intimidation that protestant FG politician Billy Fox got in Monaghan before being murdered….and he was not even DUP. Just being a Protestant and only a soft republican (or maybe just a neutral) was enough to get himself labelled as a Black 'n Tan in the Dail by FF politicians there. That all happened in living memory.

Irish, Northern Irish and Unionist.

All 3 are part of my heritage and culture.

'Culture' is more complex than the simplistic view you have,

Musicians consider themselves distinct from other musicians, but they are all part of the culture of a place. The Wolfe Tones, who you would decry are a part of your culture just as Orange marches are a part of mine.

Well that is just denial again similar to Unionist denials, which will be another touch point on a UI.
You don’t need to agree with or even like something for it to be a part of your culture.

That's a misrepresentation of what was said; "Sufficient shared culture" was the term; Find me one Irish shared culture that every Irish person considers part of "their" culture. Or German/Dutch/Polish etc.

You owe your freedom to ‘violent republicanism’, the ‘republic’ you live in was born out of violence perpetrated by the Irish and the British, it’s a part of the culture and heritage of us all, including Unionists.

Once again, I am being told by someone else what my culture is, in a way that flies in the face of the facts.

If everyone in Northern Ireland held your view of what being Irish means then we would have had a united Ireland decades ago. They don't.

When good republicans wake up to the reality that not everybody on this island is Irish and that they can't impose their monolithic view of Irishness and identity, then we might begin to have a realistic discussion on the future of this shared island.

You are mistaking ‘liking/ agreeing with parts of your culture’ with the culture.of a place. Daniel O’Donnell’s music I hate, it’s still a part of our culture here though.

You don’t understand the subject.

How patronising of you to claim to someone "you owe your freedom to ‘violent republicanism". I do not thank "violent republicanism" for anything because I know what misery it caused in so many families.

N.B. If we owe our freedom to anyone, it is to the British for standing alone (with the Commonwealth) against Nazism in 1940 : we could be speaking German now otherwise (those of us not Jewish, gypsies, homosexuals, handicapped etc).

Such paternalistic nonsense, telling me what I owe my freedom to.

For decades, people in Ireland were less free than those in England. We had more restrictive censorship laws, more restrictive laws on sexual freedom, more restrictive laws on women etc. "Freedom" isn't what you think it is.

Violent republicanism may be part of my heritage, but it isn't part of my culture. My culture has risen above 19th century notions of statehood and political violence. That your culture stays rooted in that dead past says more about you.

You can't escape your heritage, but you can create your own culture.

1993 in ROI. NI was some point in the 80s

Again, you're (conveniently) straying from your original argument.

None of my posts stated anything about (A) England (B) conditions being better/worse in either.

But seeing as you mention it; in 1967 in Northern Ireland I was certainly not as free as my Unionist neighbour.

So much for your superior selective freedoms that you celebrate and encourage.

I was responding to an unenlightened poster ….

You responded to my post which contained none of that.

My original point remains. There is insufficient shared culture on this island to justify a united nation

It's not the cast iron fact you assume it to be. Its a fairly weak opinion to suit a point scoring exercise.

Secondly, those who cling to the idea of a united Ireland are stuck in 19th century ideas of nationhood and violent republicanism. They share many characteristics with those who yearn for the restoration of greater Russia, and those on either side of the Israeli/Palestine divide who look for a one nation solution.

Again your assertion is a misguided opinion and only that. You've decried people "telling you what your culture is" yet you're the first to label those with different opinions as simple minded violent Republicans.

It seems that's the "enlightened culture" you prefer.