Eh, join on our terms, you get one county, called Co. United States with two gombeen TDs. You can also have our debt if you like, drop in your ocean.
They get Palin and Bachman, and they’ll bloody well like it.
No, no you weren’t.
There was some minor popular support for the idea, during WWII, but there was never any serious chance of it happening.
The only options that had any serious chance at any point were Newfoundland returning to being a proper, self-governed Dominion in its own right, or joining Canada. The other options (joining the US, remaining governed from London) were not nearly so popular, nor were they in any way workable.
Sweet!
:dubious: You’re bringing the beer, right?
Harry Harrison wrote an alternate history series (The Stars and Stripes trilogy) set after the Trent incident, iirc, in which the US ended up invading and freeing Ireland from British rule…
Don’t remember what Ireland’s ultimate fate was, independence or an American dependency.
It would have been one very good way for Ireland to get independence revoked.
Ireland has for far too long been used by England/GB/UK as a place to dump undesirables and beat up when they need stress relief; do you really think they wanted that again.
Exactly. The Irish wanted their own country, not to switch from control by London to control by Washington.
There was minor support during the Occupation for Japan applying to join the US.
The irony of course being that Ireland is now increasingly controlled by Brussels. You do occasionally see the odd letter to the Irish Times asking “why don’t we just go ahead and join the United States” - in a lot of ways Ireland is culturally closer to it than to continental Europe - but nobody to my knowledge has ever seriously considered it.
Belgium? How and why is Ireland under the thumb of Belgium?