>>17411714
>Why?
Ulster Unionism as an ideology emerged with heavy enthusiasm from the British Conservatives, who were aiming to use it to kill the Home Rule movement.

Protestants-including those from Ulster-in fact have a rich history of political influence in Ireland beyont that of
>muh catholics
>muh westminster
The likes of Henry Grattan and the patriot movement called for the development of Ireland as a nation within the context of Ireland, Wolfe Tone and Henry Joy McCracken or Lord Edward FitzGerald worked with Napoleon and other French revolutionaries to establish a democratic Irish Republic, John Gray or David Bell worked to improve the lot of impoverished Catholics and tenant farmers. Some of them were rebels or revolutionaries, others reformers or great statesmen.

The "Loyal Protestant Ulster Unionists" were a comparitively new grouping; while Protestants in the north-east were broadly aligned to British rather than Catholic Irish interests, they had a proud history of discourse and a wildly varied group of politicla traditions.

The main accomplishments of Ulster Unionists were:
>delaying Home Rule (it was later imposed on them)
>giving Irish Revolutionaries a way to gain momentum by destabilising politics

The "height" of Ulster Unionism was a less than 50 year peiod (1922-1969), which was a period of economic and political stagnation/decline in which Northern Ireland was ruled as a one-party Orange fiefdom by a cabal of mostly sectarian old boys. It imploded in 1969 into the Troubles, the end result of which was a set of extremely heavy concessions to Nationalists and Republicans.

I wouldn't call them "cucked" but it's a woefully blackpilling history.
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>>17411716
Most of the economic disparity in Ireland/Northern Ireland is due to big corporations and landlords. Development Planners and vulture funds gut both heritage and social housing so everything's expensive and everything sucks.

Ireland has never had a "left-wing government."

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