@humanhorseshoes@mastodon.world
@bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot @IndyRichard@mastodon.scot you see the greed when you realises that to create northen Ireland only six of the nine counties of Ulster were taken, Donegal is too rocky, the land in Monaghan is full of stones and Cavan too is too boggy, itβs all calculated control
@bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot
@humanhorseshoes@mastodon.world @IndyRichard@mastodon.scot I thought it was mostly to do with the proportion of the population that was Catholic. The east was more protestant, which made holding onto it more viable.