An Integrated Ireland

Just a minor little change here. Hopefully not something overdone.

In what ways might history be different if Britain had been able to completely integrate the Irish to the point that, even today, Ireland is considered just another part of the United Kingdom just like England, Scotland, and Wales?
 
Just a minor little change here. Hopefully not something overdone.

In what ways might history be different if Britain had been able to completely integrate the Irish to the point that, even today, Ireland is considered just another part of the United Kingdom just like England, Scotland, and Wales?

Depends on when it happened, but essentially what happens is no Irish potato famine (even if the blight hits, Ireland won't be allowed to starve the way it was OTL), which means a larger Irish population and thereby British population, which of coure leads to there being more British with which to establish and maintain Her Majesty's Empire.
 
Have Catholic Emancipation go right along with the Act of Union 1800, along with either land reform or a Great Reform Act. Might be a bit too much to hope for though.
 

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I don't think it's possible in the terms of the OP without an early POD. You could have Ireland perfectly happy as part of the UK now with PODs in the 19th or even the 20th century (just barely) but it would still be different to Scotland or Wales for historical reasons.

Put it this way - it's hard to imagine the SNP/Plaid Cymru or their ATL equivalents having a significant violent wing, but it's hard to imagine an Irish independence movement that doesn't have one.
 
That was certainly happening approaching WW1, most of the Irish public service were Irish born and probably catholic at this stage.
Witness the venomous hatred shown towards the 1916 rebels as they were being led away post surrender, in fact British soldiers had to protect them from being lynched by mobs. Then what do the good aul Brits do to the when they were incarcerated - they executed the leaders and thus ultimately and slightly paradoxically lost Ireland forever!
 
BTW if they treated the Irish in a civilised fashion throughout their imperialist sojurn here, we might have been delighted to stay in the union, but of course they most certainly for the most part did not along with their despicable native collaborators!
 
Maybe earlier settling of Ireland by the English and forcing Elizabeth I forcing Protestantism on them might help, although it's no guarentee. Let's be honest, the Scottish only went for Union with England because of the union of the crowns made it a fait accompli.
 
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