It was right next door, small and the Irish were almost constantly rebelling and during Norman Era to Tudors etc they often retook large swaths of the country.
But they managed for quite a while to control India, Canada, countries in Africa and other parts of Asia aside from India.
Niggers, Indians, Asians were turned against one another and those who had grudges against one another before colonial times such as rival Indian Kingdoms rarely united.
The Irish even if they hated a rival Gaelic clan would unite their forces all the time, could put aside past grievances in order to fight a common enemy.
Camden Cox
Close proximity to the rest of Europe made it more difficult to put down rebellions
Jayden Cooper
Because of the smaller tech gap, sorry forgot to add that
Levi Barnes
The Irish Rebellion leaders were often ex officers in British army and continental Europe armies so they had the experience and knew the enemies tactics.
Jace Green
Irish were white Christians so the Brits weren't willing to suppress them with nearly the levels of brutality that they used in their heathen colonies.
Brayden Rivera
India wasn't united at all when they conquered it.
Noah Richardson
They had no problem doing it to the Boers though
Kevin Morris
They feared the Celtic warrior.
Carter Baker
Lmao wtf? Catholics werent too popular with the British, and plenty of brutality was used to put down rebellions.
Isaiah Foster
Not to the degree of machine gunning non-violent Irish meetings in the streets thou.
Nathan Bailey
But they ruled Ireland for centuries longer than they ruled anywhere else.
Noah Fisher
These forms of execution were borrowed from the Mughals I think. It was a popular method in India and Afghanistan.
Ayden Garcia
Nah usually it was on football pitches
Luis Jenkins
the British were too kind with the Irish, they kept a light hand on quelling their rebelliousness, mayhaps the proximity to home newspapers
Xavier Kelly
>you will never execute an enemy of the crown with a cannon
Parker Powell
Bloody sunday isn't remotely close to Amritsar.
Thomas Reyes
Nice dubs response too.
The Brits most certainly gunned down the Irish in cold blood many times.
Landon Anderson
Bullshit, Cromwell massacred the irish to such a degree that 50% of the population were killed. The entire population of Drogheda was killed, even the cats and dogs. Not even the Jews can say 50% of them were killed during ww2.
Henry White
>How did the British manage to Conquer places like India but they couldn't keep control of Ireland?
Same reason they couldn't hold on to the Americas: They were unable to use the same ruthless tactics against whites as they used against shitskins.
Robert Rodriguez
Every soldier involved at Amritsar was from Pakistan or Afghanistan.
Kayden Sullivan
yet in all that poverty, and evil white englishman squalor oppression, there were still millions more left to die and be dispersed a couple hundred years later? meanwhile, Ireland hasn't reached its former population after that famous series of famines, well more than a hundred years on...
Kayden Jenkins
The Irish as a whole are descendants of English/British settlers. Their first language is English. Their greatest historical figures, in literature, science, even fucking Republicanism, are 'Anglo-Irish'. At no point in history has the Irish island been a single, independent entity, whilst it has had English/British rule - in whole or in part - for a third of its 'Celtic' history (they arrived in 500 BC). It's no good pointing the finger at the English and moaning about oppression, because the Irish are the offspring of those same men and women who settled there, commandeered their land and brought it into the United Kingdom
Evan Wood
Dunno whos arsehole you pulled that theory from. The British have been intermingling with normans, Saxons and Romans for thousands of years. The only foreign settlers of any decent size in Ireland were vikings. Some normans landed in Ireland but were a seperate class unto themselves and rarely mixed with indigenous Irish. Republicanism was taken from French revolutionaries thanks to people like Wolfe Tone. The only thing ill give you is english as the first language. Nice try
Tyler Taylor
With that dumb cunt logic killing your own children is something you can excuse because they are your descendant. Who told you this though? An Englishman? Plus, I am from Galway first words, first sentence I could spit out was in Gaelic or Gaeilge if you will.
Leo Morales
Everything you have said is utterly insane
Ryan Ross
before that my family came and made dublin. they were vikings
Zachary Ortiz
The Irish are ethnically and religiously homogenous for the most part. That means the brits can't pit them against each other and it makes for a more unified Irish resistance. Compare this to India, one of the most ethnically and religiously diverse places on the planet. Between the hundreds of ethnicities, different reilgions, caste system and so on, it's pretty easy to play them against each other. That's what made the independence movement by Ghandi so successful. He, Hindu leaders and Muslim leaders managed to put their diffferences aside to a great degree to raise an effective resistance.
Henry Johnson
Because the Irish weren't the pushover backwards retards that those English bastards portrayed them as.
Cooper Murphy
Kept control of Ireland easily until round about the same time they lost India.