Irish Colonial Developments

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Kingdom of Ireland Overseas Possessions, 1730

Population: 300,000
Scottish: 40%
English: 20%
Irish: 40%

Crown Virginia Colony
Ports: Hampton
Cities: Richmond, Roanoke, Charlottesville
Village: Lynchburg
1 Trading Post (Charlestown)
Resources: 1 (Slaves)

Crown Colony of the Carolinas
Ports: Wilmington, Charleston, Savannah, New Bern
3 Commercial Flotillas
Cities: Charlotte, Greensboro, Augusta, Macon, Columbia, Jamestown (RL Raleigh), Greenville, Asheville, Fayettville, Spartanberg, Winston-Salem, Albany
1 Trading Post: Ocumlugee
Resources: 2 (Slaves, Tobacco)

Crown Florida Colony
Cities: Pensacola, St. Augustine (Pensacola as a port 1745)
Towns: Tallahassee, Fort Caroline (Jacksonville), Potano (Gainesville) (cities in 1732)
Villages: Orlando (town 1736), Panama City

Crown Bermuda Colony
1 Port: Bermuda
3 Commercial Flotillas

Crown Caribbean Colony
2 Ports: Kingston, Bahamas
6 Commercial Flotillas
1 Resource: Jamaica (Sugar)
5 Islands: Anguilla, St Kitts, Barbuda, Saba, and Montserrat






With the purchase of much of Florida from France, as well as past acquisitions from Austria and France, the Irish possessions overseas have grown substantially. The Irish kingdom establishes an official Crown Caribbean Colony, with Kingston as the colony's administrative center, incorporating previous islands purchased from the French, as well as Jamaica and the Bahamas. The Irish name a collection of Protestants and Catholics to administer the islands, in the hopes of fostering goodwill between religions.

The purchase of Floridian properties also results in the creation of a new Crown Colony of Florida. While sparsely populated by Spaniards, Indians, and a handful of French who remained, and being a resource sink for the Kingdom for quite some time, the Irish hope that it will serve as a buffer for their more prosperous colonies further north, while holding the potential to be more profitable in the (much) longer run. Lastly, the Carolina Colony, with its immense size (running from Florida to Virginia) has proven to be quite cumbersome. Despite being ruled as a Crown Colony since the ascension of the Stuarts to the Court of Dublin (replacing the investors who had ruled up until then), the size and scope of the colony is proving difficult to administer. While no easy answer is apparent, King James' advisers have begun to discuss the possibility to dividing the territory up into more manageable sizes.