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Irish and Scottish Nationalists Plotting to Break Up U.K. Over Brexit

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Irish nationalists boast of hidden influence on Europe’s hardline negotiating stance. Along with Scottish independence campaigners, they’re ready to pounce amid wreckage of Brexit.

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LONDON—Almost a century of rebellion against British rule in Ireland—including long periods of violent insurrection—failed to reunify the island under a single flag. But historians may look back on the 2016 Brexit

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