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It's said that Ireland was England's first colony and it can be argued its longest lasting one. The Irish and the American colonials had their own grievances with the crown but while the Americans found independence in 1783 the Irish not until the 1920's. Why the big disparity?
The Irish were arguably treated much worse by England/Britain than the American colonists were.