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

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  • #32
    m@cc@
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭m@cc@


    spdmrphy wrote: »
    If we were Basque, we wouldn't be Spanish!

    Previous poster never implied this.


  • #33
    Wolfe Tone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,670 ✭✭✭✭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?


  • #34
    KeithAFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    Scotland would have two states instead. :pac:


  • #35
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Daegerty wrote: »
    What would Ireland be like if the UK didn't exist?

    Well we wouldn't have these questions thank god!


  • #36
    m@cc@
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭m@cc@


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


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  • #37
    orourkeda
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    van der vart wrote: »
    Bobby Sands would be President

    Hell no.


  • #38
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #39
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #40
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    Scotland would have two states instead. :pac:

    Eh?

    Scotland wouldn't exist according to the thread title. :confused:


  • #41
    Unpossible
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭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


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  • #42
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    Chnandler Bong wrote: »
    We would'nt have any football teams to support

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


  • #43
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    there'd be no chips.


  • #44
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


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

    scum.


  • #45
    Kevin Duffy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    pmcmahon wrote: »
    there'd be no chips.

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


  • #46
    m@cc@
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭m@cc@


    Lapin wrote: »
    Eh?

    Scotland wouldn't exist according to the thread title. :confused:

    Depends on whether they meant geographically or politically.


  • #47
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    Kevin Duffy wrote: »
    What, the Italians wouldn't come over? :pac:

    walter raleigh ;)


  • #48
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #49
    abelard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭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.


  • #50
    spdmrphy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 114 ✭✭spdmrphy


    pmcmahon wrote: »
    walter raleigh ;)

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


  • #51
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭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


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  • #52
    Kevin Duffy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    pmcmahon wrote: »
    but the english brought it to Ireland

    And in this thread, they don't exist. Try to keep up.


  • #53
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    Kevin Duffy wrote: »
    And in this thread, they don't exist. Try to keep up.

    but i just saying why we wouldn't have any chips!


  • #54
    Kevin Duffy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    pmcmahon wrote: »
    but i just saying why we wouldn't have any chips!

    Potatoes were in Europe, Italians are from Europe, Italians commonly run chippers in Ireland. See, it's true, a joke doesn't get any better when you break it down and explain it. Let this be a lesson to you!


  • #55
    mikemac
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    Strange that Italians are so associated with chippers in Ireland yet there are no chippers in Italy. It's not like a native tradition they brought over

    Just thinking out loud here


  • #56
    m@cc@
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭m@cc@


    feelingstressed wrote: »
    Strange that Italians are so associated with chippers in Ireland yet there are no chippers in Italy. It's not like a native tradition they brought over

    Just thinking out loud here

    If we somehow sneak alcohol into a conversation about the Brits and potatoes, we'll tick all the boxes of Irish stereotypes.


  • #57
    Kevin Duffy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    feelingstressed wrote: »
    Strange that Italians are so associated with chippers in Ireland yet there are no chippers in Italy. It's not like a native tradition they brought over

    Just thinking out loud here

    Well worth thinking out loud about, a lack of chippers should not be taken lightly.


  • #58
    KeithAFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    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
    Pagan Loyalists.. :p


  • #59
    OhThePenguin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 225 ✭✭OhThePenguin


    pmcmahon wrote: »
    but i just saying why we wouldn't have any chips!

    On our shoulders?


  • #60
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    feelingstressed wrote: »
    Strange that Italians are so associated with chippers in Ireland yet there are no chippers in Italy. It's not like a native tradition they brought over

    Just thinking out loud here

    it started with an italian family in glasgow,therefore we'd still have no chips


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  • #61
    Kevin Duffy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    m@cc@ wrote: »
    If we somehow sneak alcohol into a conversation about the Brits and potatoes, we'll tick all the boxes of Irish stereotypes.

    I got pissed once and hit a Brit with a spud. I was on a building site at the time.

    HTH


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