Hazards of separation from Great Britain. Unionist postcard (1912)

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  1. Oh my God, they’ve only gone and done it; they’ve completely devoured Wales!

    The country would not re-emerge from beneath the Englishman’s boot until Lloyd George became PM in 1916.

  2. I can understand how they were effectively scaremongering when they referred to ‘Land League’ and ‘ povert’ provinces, but what exactly was so scary about Maynooth?

  3. I be up the north a bit, “prosperity” wouldn’t be in any description I’d use, unless it was “lack of”.

  4. Connaught should be the Land League Province – Mayo is the birthplace of the Land League and Michael Davitt. Fuck the Brits, they’ve gone too far this time. Who do I complain to?

  5. I mean they weren’t really wrong.

    We were a poverty stricken, Catholic Church controlled backwater until we joined the EU. Not to say leaving the UK wasn’t the right choice, but I think it’s important not to have rose tinted glasses too.

    Brexit today is in many ways comparable to what Ireland did when it gained independence.

  6. This image was in a history textbook at my school, and in one copy someone drew a pair of scissors next to the rope.

  7. A more accurate modern day version of that postcard would look something like this. That John Bull prick in rags using the rope for a belt as he cower’s behind a lectern in the south east of England from the rising of the Scots and the Welsh as they break free from the shackles of Union. While Cathleen ni Houlihan stands resplendent over the island of Ireland using her harp, stretches across the Irish Channel, to push the festering wound that was once the UK up into the North Sea.

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