“Didn’t Ireland get out of the UK?”
Was that a serious reply? It’s hard to tell sometimes whether a comment is subtle and brilliant satire or mind-numbing blindness - there’s a bit of overlap between the two.
Suffice it to say that Northern Ireland is a part of the U.K., and the Republic of Ireland is a nominally independent nation. This two-state solution is what has historically and euphemistically been described as a “compromise”, known better colloquially as “casus belli”.
You see, the ultra-loyalist lowland Scots the British monarchy imported to settle the Ulster plantation largely remain, to this day, ultra-loyalist... much to the chagrin of a U.K. that would best wish to be rid of the business entirely. This can at times result in some minor difficulty for all parties involved, and will likely continue to do so until one party or the other is pushed off the island (or until they find some common enemy to murder in the meantime).
I meant exactly what I meant it to say...
It wasn’t until I calmed down I saw this was in Belfast. I guess that just makes my post all the more ironic considering why there is an Ireland and Northern Ireland.