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Old 01-24-2018, 05:26 AM   #585
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Originally Posted by tom8517 View Post
your answer would be found in what happened to the unionist minority, of both religions, in the Free State, and eventually the Republic after independence. Basically nothing. No reprisals, no confiscations of estates, and the political freedom to actually lobby for the return of the union.
I'm surprised the estates and other property (which were basically stolen by English/British landlords) were not confiscated back by an Irish government at some stage. I wonder if Irish citizens are still paying rent to descendants of those landlords?
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