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Spanish Ireland

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  • #52
    holystungun9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,933 ✭✭✭holystungun9


    Dardania wrote: »
    Admit it, you're really just fantasising about Spanish girls invading the country!

    WRONG

    we are fantasizing about invading the spanish girls:D


  • #53
    Hail 2 Da Thief
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,615 ✭✭✭Hail 2 Da Thief


    Mmmmmm Spanish girls!!..............................What was the question again?


  • #54
    southsiderosie
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    ScumLord wrote: »
    I suppose fish is big in Spanish food but then the whole aversion to fish comes from the Catholic church and we'd probably be a very Catholic country if we where under Spanish rule.

    I don't think Ireland could be any more Catholic than it has been tbh.


  • #55
    Augmerson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,162 ✭✭✭Augmerson


    Considering the Spanish slaughtered millions in the Caribbean, Central and South America and brought down the Inca civilisation, I don't think Ireland would have been any better off under Spanish rule as opposed to British rule but atleast the Spanish were Catholic, so they may not have persecuted Catholic's here and discriminated against them like Protestant Britain did later on.


  • #56
    Barna77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,272 ✭✭✭Barna77


    The invasion began ages ago, there are lots of Spanish in Ireland.

    It's a slow process you know. Ever been to Dublin 8? :D


  • #57
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    The Spanish and Irish have always got on quite well, probably due to the collective Catholic guilt thing going on. They certainly wouldn't have colonised Ireland after the Armada, we were religious allies after all. Besides it was much to cold for them here anyhow.


  • #58
    Earthhorse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,714 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    It would make learning Spanish a whole lot easier and also unnecessary. We'd also speak the second widest spoken language in the world, so a small step back there.

    Also, After Hours would be half the size it is due to all the missing "are European women better than Irish women" threads.


  • #59
    gbee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,388 ✭✭✭gbee


    Augmerson wrote: »
    Considering the Spanish slaughtered millions in the Caribbean, Central and South America and brought down the Inca civilisation,

    And gave us a new race of people, the Latino. As the Spanish inquisitors moved around South America they killed most of the male population and ordered their own men to mate with the women.

    It's probably not the first case of ethnic cleansing, but it was one of the top most secrets held in part by the Catholic Church as these assaults were done in the name of the King & Queen and in a form of Catholicism that would put radical Muslims to shame.


  • #60
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    southsiderosie wrote: »
    I don't think Ireland could be any more Catholic than it has been tbh.
    We had a long period of relative freedom from the Catholic church under British rule. While we wanted to follow Catholic rules the government wouldn't care that we did as they would in a predominantly Catholic country. In a way religion was more of a choice in Ireland under British rule.


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  • #61
    Jeboa Safari
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭Jeboa Safari


    Probably be eventually be retaken by the British, but I'd say the British plantations probably wouldn't have happened on such scale, and we'd probably be an independent united Ireland by now. Probably wouldn't be neutral either, not sure whose side we'd take in any European wars either, depending on the Spanish and British legacy probably, interesting to think about though. If we were independent early with any sort of decent rule over the country and not conquered again, we might have a few colonies around the world.


  • #62
    gbee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,388 ✭✭✭gbee


    ScumLord wrote: »
    In a way religion was more of a choice in Ireland under British rule.

    St Pat converts Ireland C: 428CE.
    Ireland becomes 'English' C: 1155CE. That's 700 years of Catholicism
    King Henry 8th converts C: 1532CE. This ends 1,100 years of Catholicism
    Irish Republic C: 1949CE. This ends 400 years of Catholic Persecution

    From King H8, THE religion of the British Isles and Empire was Church Of England [Protestant] with King H8 as its head, just as the Pope was head of the Catholic Church. [The current monarch in England still holds this title].

    One had one choice, convert to CoE. One did not have to join by decree but if you wanted a religious life this was all the choice you had.

    A major occupation for the British colonial troops in Ireland, almost a 'pastime' for them was to hunt down Catholic mass meetings, sometimes hang the priest form the nearest tree and burn out all those recognised at the mass.

    :D


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