hey thanks this is quite helpful, this could be the guy who makes the immigration into Russia more common and more frequent
Also I have now accepted the idea of Baltic Irish but could it be possible for the tsar to offer them huge tracks of land in Finland (ecspecially lapland, the more southern areas anyway) to ensure that he has a friendly and co-operative people in the region
The tsar had a friendly and co-operative people in the area (post 1809): the Finns. Giving away huge areas in Finland to newcomers against their wishes would likely make them somewhat less friendly.
I can see Irish immigration into Finland, but more based on integration with the Finnish and Swedish-speaking populations. That is how most OTL immigration into Finland worked, at least in the modern period.
Besides, nobody but the Sami people and a relative handful of strange Finns, Swedes and Norwegians really want to live in Lapland anyway.
