Parallels: Brexit and Irish Independence
Oct. 30th, 2016 07:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tealinNext in the series of articles I don't have time to write, and so am planting in your imagination:
"A Comparison Between Irish Independence From the UK, and the UK's Independence From the EU"
Points would be:
- A sudden schism upending a pre-existing series of negotiations for greater autonomy (Easter Rising/Referendum)
- Pro-schism factions calling upon romantic notions of nationhood to trump the economic and logistical sense of remaining in what was at the time the most profitable, secure, stable economic/social/political union in the world
- The further dissolution of internal nations (Ulster/Scotland)
- Post-schism mismanagement of key sectors in the economy (Fianna Fail and agriculture/trade war with Britain; The Death of British Business about how the financial services sector has been undermined)
If someone wants to take that and write it, I would really love to read it.
"A Comparison Between Irish Independence From the UK, and the UK's Independence From the EU"
Points would be:
- A sudden schism upending a pre-existing series of negotiations for greater autonomy (Easter Rising/Referendum)
- Pro-schism factions calling upon romantic notions of nationhood to trump the economic and logistical sense of remaining in what was at the time the most profitable, secure, stable economic/social/political union in the world
- The further dissolution of internal nations (Ulster/Scotland)
- Post-schism mismanagement of key sectors in the economy (Fianna Fail and agriculture/trade war with Britain; The Death of British Business about how the financial services sector has been undermined)
If someone wants to take that and write it, I would really love to read it.
