Earlier, Britain was a state comprising of different ethnic groups. The people there spoke languages like wilch,scot,irish and english.The engligh group was more dominent on the rest of the groups in terms of power, wealth and importance and thus it had influence over all the other confederations.
In 1688, the English parliament defeated the monarchy and became an instrument through which a nation state, with English at the centre, could be forged. Then, in 1707, The ACT OF UNION of england with scotland was passed which led to the formation of United Kingdom Of Great Britain.It also gave the english parliament, the power to impose its influence over the scottish people.The english people tried to suppress the scottish highlanders whenever they tried to assert for their independence.They were also forbidden to talk in their Gaelic language,wear their traditional dress and were often driven out of their homeland.
Then, after some years, United kingdom of great britain tried to unify Ireland in it as well.For this, it mainly supported the protestents of irelands to establish their dominance of the catholic irelands.This enraged the catholic population and as a result, wolfe tone(a revolutionary) along with other united irishmen revolted against these protestents.But this revolt failed in 1789 and as a result, Ireland was forcibly incorporated in the U.K of Great Britain in 1801.
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