abstract
| - The lack of interest of the Great Powers allowed the Irish King (Briain III) to claim this vast territory of land without any opposition from European powers. The Belgian King Leopold II utterly rejected the Irish claim, due to the imperial ambitions of his own realm, the issue was finally settled in the 1884 Berlin conference which formally gave the Congo basin to Ireland. Irish rule was centered around the collective interests of corporations and the Church of Ireland, the colony experienced an economic boom during the 1900's providing its mother country with a stable income, this led to Ireland to become a highly productive industrial nation, as the government invested large sums of money into industries via subsidies. White Europeans began to settle in the Congo with the White population reaching 87,000 by 1925 and 150,000 in 1934 due to the lack of employment during the Great Depression. At the beginning of the Cold War the until then independence movement was revived, by 1960 an insurgency had developed and would last for a decade and caused nearly 13,800 deaths, though small in comparison to other insurgencies for example in the case of the Rhodesian Bush War it catastrophically drained the finances of Ireland and eventually led to their withdrawal in 1978. Thereafter becoming a sovereign territory of Ireland.
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