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The Ulster Protestant “Loyalists” led a revolt against the British Government, who had promised Home Rule to Dublin. Sir Edward Carson was responsible, with slogans like “Ulster will fight, and Ulster will be right.” “Home Rule means Rome Rule.”On the night of 24 April 1914, thousands of German and Austrian rifles and ammunition were unloaded from the SS Clyde Valley at the ports of Larne, Donaghadee and Bangor. From Drumalis House in Larne some 20,000 guns and two million rounds of ammunition were distributed to UVF detachments throughout the north. The local customs, coastguards and Royal Irish Constabulary in these ports were surrounded and cut off until the operation was complete.See How UVF brought 20,000 guns into Ulster politics - BelfastTelegraph.co.ukFaced with an imminent violent revolt, and uncertain whether British troops at the Curragh would fight against the Ulstermen, the Westminster Government caved in.The other answers explain the later stages of the process very well.Power grows out of the barrel of a gun, said Mao-tse-Tung. Well, it certainly did for the Ulster Unionists.It’s the term “Loyalists” which sticks in the gullet.

Shetland is really quite remote, but not too poor these days thanks to North Sea oil (although that particular industry has taken a bit of a bump recently). There isn’t a huge amount to do in Shetland, which is probably why in Lerwick they clearly decided Hogmanay wasn’t crazy enough, so they have a festival called Up Helly Aa where they set fire to longboats. If you live in Unst, I imagine you might be quite bored the rest of the year. Other than oil, the main source of employment in Shetland is still the fishing. Traditionally they say that Shetlanders are fishermen who farm, while Orcadians are farmers who fish. In any case, Lerwick is as close to the city lights as you will find without having to get on a ferry or plane to the mainland of Scotland.Northern Ireland is also generally fairly rural, but mainly in a much more rolling fertile hills kind of way and not nearly as isolated as Shetland. There is also the exception of the formerly industrial hub of Belfast (mainly shipbuilding, much the same as the lower Clyde Valley in the west of Scotland really, but without the surrounding hinterland of coal mines and steelworks), which can’t honestly be described as rural. Belfast is far and away the second biggest city on the island of Ireland. The architecture is generally fairly traditional, although it reminds me more of Manchester than Glasgow - housing normally consists of terraces rather than tenements and there’s a lot more brickwork and a lot less sandstone than in Scotland’s Central Belt. The next biggest city in Northern Ireland is Derry, which like Belfast has had more than its fair share of troubles - political, social and economic - but although I’ve never been that far west, I can’t imagine it’s as bad as it was (I’m sure I would have heard otherwise if that were the case). NI doesn’t have any oil money, but it does have significant investment by the UK government and the EU (although obviously that latter source of funding is at risk now…) and there’s a fairly entrepeneurial spirit to much of the place. As long as you don’t have to live on a scheme, you’re probably all right in NI. Even then, I imagine you mainly just need to be aware, which you probably need to do anywhere anyway.All in all, they’re pretty different places. I’m not 100% sure which I would choose, but I would probably lean towards Northern Ireland. What you choose is in large part dependent on what sort of lifestyle you are looking for.

This is a bloody good question Jake, and I’ve been thinking about it since you hit me with the A2A a few days back. (I hope you asked Eòghann, btw! I’d love to read his take on this!)I’ve read that Scots (proper) and Northumbrian (proper) were the same language when they were both still at the Middle English stage. As a Scots speaker or maybe more accurately ‘semi-speaker’, I can’t help but notice some of the similarities between Eastern Scots and Northumbrian in vocabulary when compared to Modern English. There is one example in particular that I’ve noticed; the word ‘bairn’ is ubiquitous in the NE of England, but sadly almost dead in the Clyde valley where ‘wee-ane’ has all but usurped it. I love to hear the word bairn (child), and I use it when I’m of a mind to try to speak a higher register of Scots.I think where the two entities are now (i’m scared to use ‘languages’ or ‘dialects’ in the specific case of Scots and Northumbrian because someone clever will come along and shoot me down for saying either!), is that there’s an immediate shared early Anglic root, with many different influences over the course that were imposed by medieval politics.For me in the main, and I’m no linguist, Middle English in Scotland diverged from Northumbrian because of the overwhelming influence of the Gaelic nobility on the population, and that Gaelic was the prestige language of king and court. Northumbrian on the other hand was influenced by Mercian English much earlier than Scots was, and that is perhaps why the accent difference between Edinburgh and Newcastle, is so much greater than between Edinburgh and Dundee, or Edinburgh and Aberdeen despite Newcastle Upon Tyne being about 20 minutes nearer by car. They also had shared influences such as Nordic languages, different types of French, and Brythonnic Celtic.In modern times Scots (proper) and Northumbrian (proper) are still more mutually intelligible than Scots and Standard English are, but the accents are so very different, and Scots still maintains a more complete Middle English root.For the moment they are *just* distinct, but they are well on their way to meeting up again as mere ‘regional accents’ as Modern English has its wicked way.I’m sorry to say that I think Northumbrian is pretty much a half-way house between English and Scots now, and it is still shifting down the continuum towards English as time passes. That trend is unlikely to reverse.