#i love 18thc irish politics it was so sane & normal

[werewolfetone]

Yes the 1782 revolution was undone in under twenty years no it did not materially make things better for basically anyone other than the ascendancy class yes ireland was still under the control of the british monarchy yes they still were controlled by a lord lieutenant yes the british still basically had full control of the government but ☝️ technically it did not fail. features not bugs and so on

It's so funny to me the frequency with which people on the r/irishhistory subreddit post asking about how history would be different if grattan's 1782 revolution for irish independence had worked seeing as at least in the way they defined irish independence at that time the 1782 scheme did work, almost totally, it was just so ineffectual that everyone assumes the endeavour ended in immediate spectacular failure a la the united irishmen. most cringe fail "revolution" in the history of humanity fr