Why have the Irish always been unable of putting up a real fight?
Why have the Irish always been unable of putting up a real fight?
Sebastian Stewart
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Colton Martin
>Small population
>Not that rich
>Their main opponent was Britain (a world power)
They never really had much of a chance since all the odds were against them but at least they managed to become independent.
Logan Foster
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Liam Harris
because at the time Ireland was conquered by Britain, it was a series of disunited and feuding kingdoms and tribes who weren't really able to put up a unified front/defense effort.
It's like asking why the Scottish Highlands weren't able to put up a real fight.
Hunter Young
The USA would like to have a word with you
We take the Irish DNA and actually use it well
Carter Smith
But with shitty army
Dylan Lewis
Too busy being fashionable
Michael Ortiz
plastic paddy
Aaron Wright
whiskey, if it wasn't for the liquor they would be ruling the planet by now.
Charles Taylor
DELETE THIS
John Price
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Owen Hill
Isn’t this true of only Scotland though?
Robert Brown
HOL UP
YOU'S
BE SAYIN
YOUS WUZ
IRISH NSHEIT
Luis Stewart
Na, Scots just have we bit of fun when drinking, but the Irish were originally designed to be an invasive Übermensch species destined to rule the earth, but then the sore fuckers started drinking. The rest is history.
Jackson Nelson
Nah man it's because we are a race of over emotional, borderline bipolar alcoholics who typically fuck ourselves over within ourselves over personal reasons than actually fail due to incompetence. For example the civil war in the 20s following our independence was more about personal vendettas between various government and army officials than political disagreements. On short, we are victims to ourselves more than our enemies.
Christian Sullivan
>implying that defeating a global superpower that is literally an hour long sail from you when half your country are English bastards anyway isn't 'a real fight'
Bentley Bennett
I have to give the IRA that they have some of the finest protest songs ever made.
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Blake Brooks
Sebastian Robinson
Brody Nguyen
>en.wikipedia.org
>Although not pursued a mile or two beyond Castlebar, the British did not stop until reaching Tuam, with some units fleeing as far as Athlone in the panic. The panic was such that only the arrival of Cornwallis at Athlone prevented further flight across the Shannon.
wew lad
Dylan Perry
>No Kilmichael
Jayden Ward
No offense, but somehow they only excel at killing each-others. Why? Is killing Irish really so much fun?
Isaiah Collins
>English
>Vikings
>Scots
>>Irish
Blake Howard
Fighting has never been the part of war that the Irish have had trouble with, it's usually leadership.
Here's generally how Irish wars against the English/British go
>Initial string of Irish victories
>gets to the point where it looks like they might win
>Irish leadership begin to squabble amongst themselves
>Foreign power trying to help the Irish only make things worse
>English/British start winning, beating the Irish back
>one last minor Irish victory
>final British victory, Irish are swept away and anything after this will be small holdouts of resistance
Dylan Parker
I see the problem, I'm Swiss, same same here but different. Thanks to having 3-4 mighty overlord neighbors that hate each others, it kinda stabilized us and getting bribes from 4 guys is much better living than getting robbed by just one.
Kevin Nelson
Across an ocean with the full support of the french navy. Ireland is a bit closer and with a few less french ships.
Nicholas Harris
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Jaxon Wright
>(You)
Alexander Baker
>WE WUZ AAH-RISH AND SHIIEEETTT
Ian Perez
>my family is from ireland
>LOOOLE UR A DOO DOO HEAD XD
woah.... so this is the high level of discourse I've been hearing so much about.....
Brody Turner
>Implying Scots weren't already in charge for centuries
England ruled the empire, but Scots were the ones who ran it.