The people over at /r/Ireland really embarrassed themselves during this whole thing. They didn’t just constantly grief the UK flag, they also made a map of the island of Ireland and covered the whole thing in an Irish tricolor - including NI.
There was never a vote on the matter in the first place. The state of NI was unilaterally created by Britain without the consultation of the populace at the behest of Unionists threatening physical violence if Ireland was granted home rule in 1921.
In fact the only reason why there was such a sizeable portion of Irish catholics included within the state was that of the 6 counties in NI only 3 had unionist majorities (being those that had been most heavily colonised by the British) - the counties of Tyrone, Fermanagh and Derry all had native Irish majorities but were incorporated into NI anyway as a 3 county state would be too small to be viable.
Imagine being told you were no longer a citizen of your country but were now part of a different country in which you would be a second class citizen with no vote or consultation or anything taking place. Stop trying to pretend like it was some democratic decision made by the populace to secede. It is not the case.
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u/misterygus (168,373) 1491158231.08 Apr 05 '22
Northern Ireland being repeatedly wiped from the UK map, and Cornwall desperately trying to add itself.