How would the history of the British Isles have developed if

>>3221448
How would you have converted them? Would they have been the same population being utterly forced under the boot of Ollie Cromwell to be Protestant? Or would the Catholic Irish natives have simply been utterly genocided to make way for English immigrants to take their place?

>>3221474
For some reason or other, a majority of them just suddenly decided to believe in Protestantism.

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>>3221448
Full assimilation into Anglo society. Would still be in union with Britain today, the the 1950s catholic population of Britain, Australia, US, canada, New Zealand would be significantly less. Likewise the catholic population of former British colonies would be way less because Irish missionaries were responsible for the conversions there.

You'd have an entire island of WE WUZ QUEENZ instead of just it's embarrassing northern extremity

>>3221448
it was tried in the tudor period, but the venture was seriously underfunded so protestantism never made headway sadly

>>3221448
did they all transform into snakes too?

>>3221486
So, do you think that the only real reason Brits hated Micks was their Catholicism, or was there more to it?
>>3221474
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>>3221816
I'm not even British, I'm just curious. You don't have to be such obnoxious assholes.

>>3221474
Let's just say they decided to give protestantism a try and it worked out

>>3222017
>obnoxious

Reddit spotted

>>3222047
What's wrong with the word "Obnoxious?"

You forget that Irish republicanism was conceptualised and spearheaded by Protestants. If they converted but still retained their ethno-national identity and resented British administration there would still be conflict of interests

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Protestantism and Irishness weren't really thought of as being mutually exclusive until the mid 20th century, and even after that you have important Protestant Nationalists like Ivan Cooper or Linda Ervine.

Irish nationalism and Gaelic revivalism were arguably dominated by Protestants from the 18th until the early 20th centuries.

>>3221474
by raping thousands of irish babies to death then throwing them into a bonfire to please satan

"muh catholics" isn't the only way England fucked over the irish so they'd probably still rebel.

They have the bonus of being their own landmass so unlike the Scots there was even less "collective" identity with the English, but despite all that the English for centuries imposed economic and military policies in Ireland which were for lack of better words severely autistic.

It was a widely accepted fact that if the British hadn't been so needlessly dickish toward the bogtrotters then they'd absolutely still be in the Union.

There wasn't even an appetite for independence prior or during the 1916 Rising, it was only English retardation in their response that fuelled the war that lost them Ireland.

>>3221448
Probably still would've been revolts and oppression, the conflict of the Irish and the English was always cultural and racial in nature, religion was just another factor of that.