C2350 Young Irish Party (1/2)

The cause of Irish independence had never ceased for six or seven hundred years, starting with the invasion of the English. In the medieval era of cold weapons, the Irish still had a bit of autonomy, because wars of that era worked wonders by virtue of their courage.

The Irish could have guaranteed more or less successful counterattacks against the British in a direct confrontation, so at that time England nominally occupied the Ireland and declared sovereignty over Europe, but in reality the Irish still did not recognize British domination.

Furthermore, the conflicts between the sects in that era were very serious. The Irish who worshipped Catholics and the English who believed in Protestantism were completely different. There was no possibility for them to negotiate.

After hundreds of years of war, as Britain gradually increased its national strength, especially its technology, the Irish were gradually at a disadvantage. Especially in the Firearm Era, these aboriginals who were sealed in the Ireland had already broken away from the trend of the times.

The difference in strength between the two sides was getting bigger. It wasn't until Ke Lunweier's conquest that the Irishman became a proletarian. They had lost nearly 90% of their land, all their industrial infrastructure, and all their ports and external connections had been sealed off.

Since then, Irish resistance has been forced to move underground.

No matter how righteous the Irish were in their quest for justice, Britain's national destiny had, after all, taken the first ride on the Industrial Revolution, and the British Empire had thoroughly dominated the world.

The Irish knew perfectly well that the state was not so much weak as an astronomical figure, and that the Irish cause of independence was really difficult to achieve.

It's not that they haven't thought about it, but a good part of the Irish have fantasized about being able to fit into the British system as long as they are submissive.

But they were wrong, a Great Famine had completely broken their fantasy, which was the calamity that had caused the deaths of millions of people, and had caused the Irish to wake up completely.

In the eyes of the British, who wanted their whole nation dead and wiped out, the Irish were no better than a dog.

After the disillusionment came the collective action of the entire elite of Ireland, and almost all the educated Irish, especially the young, had rebelled over survival during the famine.

After all, they were all elites and were very smart. They did not choose to call out the slogan of independence, but attacked British customs, ports, and even tried to ban food exports.

They had thought that this disturbance over the right to live would eventually be properly resolved by the British, but they had never imagined that the British had no pity at all and that the Young Irish Party had been subjected to even more brutal repression.

It was no longer possible to count how many hot-blooded young men had died in the uprising, and it was impossible for the British authorities to publish these humiliating figures.

Since then, the Irish have learned that their plans for independence cannot be carried out on their own, that they must wait for the great change of the times, for the day when England will fall.

So when the Foundation offered them an olive branch, their first thought was that it was fake, that more than half of the Shabaab's top brass thought it was the British intelligence agency's fishing scheme.

These core members of the youth faction all refused to meet Paul and the others. Other than the outer ring, where the smuggler had some interactions with Paul, there was no news of them.

They had seen too much of their own blood. Repeatedly suppressing them, the British had never relented in killing the Irish.

The Irish could not afford to lose again.