I would assume its because Wales and Scottland fell in line pretty quickly whereas Ireland never wanted to be part of Britain and told England to fuck off.
I would assume its because Wales and Scottland fell in line pretty quickly whereas Ireland never wanted to be part of Britain and told England to fuck off.
England was taken over by a Scottish king via intermarriage bullshit. The royal families of each country literally merged into one. There were attempts at military conquest to varying degrees of success before that, but ultimately the union of both countries was through royal nonsense and not England conquering Scotland.
Consequently, Scots have played major roles in British government, business, culture, and empire for centuries, because they are nominally (and practically) equals. They weren't seen as another race. Scottish people have been oppressed by Scottish lords.
Ireland was an imperial, colonial project defined by conquest and genocide.
Yeah I was just curious as to why I saw 19th century and early 20th Century Scottish and Welsh people Joining in with England to shit on Ireland. I was suprised very surprised. Honestly all three England Scottland and Wales seemed to treat the Irish (especially low born irish) like dogs back in those days.
Edit: I would also assume some of it was the desire of the irish to remain catholic whereas England Scottland and Wales had turned fully protestant at that point.
As an outside observer, I was also going to give the religion answer, but that might be at the root of jack's post