Comments by "" (@davidlauder-qi5zv) on "The Troubles: Unravelling Northern Ireland's 30-Year Conflict" video.

  1. ​​ @jackietreehorn5561 And what did Germany do to Europe ìn the 1930s and 40s? Or are you claiming that that was a harmless site-seeing tour of Europe by the German Army?
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  2. ​ @lt8400 You are ignoring the fact that in the north of the island of Ireland the Protestants "planted" in the early 1600s were Scots, who, 400 years later, when Ireland was divided in 1921, formed the majority of the population in the newly created Northern Ireland. Haven't you heard of the Scots Irish?
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  3.  @lt8400  Yes. You spoke of the planters being "obviously protestants as this occurred after England's conversion to protestantism."
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  4. Just shows how ignorant you are. It was Protestant Scots who were "planted" in the north of the island of Ireland in the early I600s by King James VI of Scotland (who had also become King James I of England in 1603 upon the death of Elizabeth I). These original Scots settlers would form the majority of the population when Northern Ireland was created 400 years later when the island of Ireland was divided into the Republic of Ireland, a sovereign Catholic state, and Northern Ireland, a Protestant enclave of the UK, in 1921. So what you are saying is that the Protestant majority in Northern Ireland, who've been there for 400 years, and who came originally from Scotland, not England, should be deported to England. Doesn't make sense does it. It would be a good idea if you actually had done some research.
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  5. You don't know the facts about, or the history of, Northern Ireland, do you? It was Protestant Scots who were "planted" in the north of the island of Ireland in the 1600s, more than 400 years ago, not the English. When the Republic of Ireland was created in the 1920s, becoming a sovereign nation in its own right (with its capital in Dublin) the Protestant majority of the population in Northern Ireland voted then (and continued to do so since) to remain a part of the United Kingdom. Which part of that don't you understand.
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  6. No, you don't understand. The Protestant majority in Northern Ireland have always voted to remain a part of the UK.
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  7.  @jackietreehorn5561  What "treaty"?
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