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It was touch and go for a moment, but the Ulster-Scots decided they were best off with their fellow Irishmen than being directly ruled from another island... BUT what if had that not happened? what if north and south tensions boiled or or one "side" tried to keep the other under their boot? I suspect Britain might get involved having a civil war in its back door or maybe it might just let things in Ireland sort out themselves.
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