Irish immigration to Russia

Good idea but I just don't see why the Irish would bother moving that far away Espeically when most of the POD begin in 1600 and the Provence was first settled in 1857
Funny thought though Irish catholics and Jews living together....



Wouldn't end well

Would they be Catholic Jews or Protestant Jews, though?
 
And Wellington had to deal with General Joaquín Blake y Joyes of the Galacian Junta and eventually one of the three Spanish Regents.
 
Please tell me more.

Leopoldo O'Donnell for Spain jumps to mind as does President MacMahon for France.

Yep, Leopoldo O'Donnell (Prime Minister of Spain three times between 1856-66) and Patrice MacMahon (President of France 1873-79) are the two I was thinking of. Interestingly, both were generals and both were created Dukes by the monarchs of their respective countries for their military service.

EDIT: Danth, while I was looking around Wikipedia I found this guy, whose family moved to Livonia from Ireland after James II's defeat. You may know about him already, but he seems like an interesting character.
 
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this guy[/URL], whose family moved to Livonia from Ireland after James II's defeat. You may know about him already, but he seems like an interesting character.

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
 
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.;)
 
The question is why the Tsar would want heterodox settlers. They certainly did import German farmers, but they were pretty desperate to improve russian agriculture. What skills ddo the Irish have?


France and Spain are both very different cases because they were rc countries playing host to rcs fleeing protestant oppression.
 
The question is why the Tsar would want heterodox settlers. They certainly did import German farmers, but they were pretty desperate to improve russian agriculture. What skills ddo the Irish have?


France and Spain are both very different cases because they were rc countries playing host to rcs fleeing protestant oppression.

The idea so far is that the original irish where the ones that fought in the Tsars armies against sweden
The tsar is looking for loyal allies and the Irish have proven themselves to be that

Also their is a POD where a Irish men helps stop an assassination of an important figure

It thankyou that echos down the centuaries
 
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