The Untied Kingdom of Great Britain and All Ulster?

Northern Ireland today is 6 of the 9 counties that made up the old Irish Province of Ulster, so what if in 1920 when Ireland was deviled all 9 counties when to the UK and County Cavan, County Donegal and County Monaghan were part of a united Ulster with-in the UK?
 
Those three countries were majority Catholic. That would not be good. The Ulster Protestants wouldn't like it either as they would be less dominant.
 
Those three countries were majority Catholic. That would not be good. The Ulster Protestants wouldn't like it either as they would be less dominant.

What he said. Even in the six counties, Protestants only make up about 60% of the population, adding three more counties that are overwhelmingly Catholic-dominated will diminish Protestant power in the province.

Having three overwehlmingly Catholic counties in the Union will lead to resentment in that area and may perhaps sour Anglo-Irish relations further.
 
What he said. Even in the six counties, Protestants only make up about 60% of the population, adding three more counties that are overwhelmingly Catholic-dominated will diminish Protestant power in the province.

the 40/60 split is newish, large Catholic families mostly, back when Norn Iron was formed in was 70-75% Protestants.
 
At most you could get seven counties into Northern Ireland: the six plus Donegal (as I recall the Boundary Commission actually intended to give a largish bit of Donegal to Northern Ireland, one reason for its less than approving reception from the Free State and Britain), but six seems the most likely figure. Many in Britain wanted even less than that, Asquith himself proposed excluding just four Counties from Home Rule (Antrim, Armagh, Down and Derry, and South Armagh would likely have been included under Home Rule anyway under this plan). The other three counties simply didn't have enough Unionists to bring them into Northern Ireland, one reason why Carson and Craig never got their "clean cut" of Ulster from Ireland.
 
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