You've mentioned numerous times that Ireland was only united under British rule, which is true. But it's not as though you won an election, Ireland was taken by brute force, and British rule was sustained at the point of a gun.
Are you really so naive that you think that the Irish would ever accept a union with the UK after Cromwell, the penal laws, the indifference of the crown while millions starved during the famine?
The United Irishmen was the name of an organization, not a claim to the state of mind of the Irish people. But it's worth remembering that when they launched the revolt of 1798 the bulk of the leadership were northern protestants
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