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1848: Year of Revolution

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The Importance of the Revolution in Ireland

I think the British system survives because it showed it could reform itself from within. The Queen Victoria was a young, attractive, almost charismatic monarchs. She had lots of legitimacy in her tank as compared with most of the cretins who ruled the continental monarchy. So England is... Great Britain, United Kingdom, one should say, is a special case in that... But there was a revolution in Ireland, which is then part of Britain, as it were. Not in 1848. There is an attempted revolution. People have a confederates of all things. They rise up, but it's put down very, very quickly. It doesn't qualify as a real revolution, Tim.

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