United Kingdom of Scotland and Northern Ireland

January 23, 2007
Filed under: en, featured, politics 

One aspect of Scottish independence that I’ve never seen discussed is the “problem” that Ireland joined the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1801, nearly a hundred year after Scotland and England formed a union. As far as I can tell, this means that it’s not obvious whether England or Scotland gets Northern Ireland if Scotland becomes independent again.

Everybody seems to assume that the two resulting countries would be the Kingdom (or Republic) of Scotland and the United Kingdom of England and Northern Ireland, but wouldn’t it just be interesting if instead we ended up with the Kingdom of England and the United Kingdom of Scotland and Northern Ireland? ;-)

In many ways it would make sense, since Northern Ireland is culturally and linguistically much closer to Lowland Scotland than to England.

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One Response to “United Kingdom of Scotland and Northern Ireland”

  1. Phyl on January 26th, 2007 13:29

    I think this wd be a cool outcome. I hate that we’re the biggest so we get everything attitude – it is so taken for granted.

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