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Ramble away!

I'd guess it's because your country was at the height of its Empire and accustomed to wars across the globe.
Well, not my country exactly, but since we were a suspect colony at the time, and it was our men they sent off to fight in those wars, I guess it might as well have been. The Victorian era came right between the two big Irish rebellions, the failed one in 1798 and the successful one during WWI (and my gods are we selfcentered about that! Everyone else was concerned with the Great War. We Irish were busy moaning about the Easter Rising). I actually think Queen Vic was the reason we didn't try our hand at a 19th century rebellion. With the White Queen at the height of her power, sensible colonies stayed cooperative, or they went the way of India in '57. Gods, but they were ruthless. Like the Romans, really. A military run with sheer engineering efficiency.

I understand the preoccupation with the Civil War for Americans, though. I never meant to suggest otherwise. Same as we looked to our own freedom and ignored mostly the horror of WWI. Not out of pettiness, but because it turned our world upside down and made us something new. A free state, for the first time. In your case, it was a war that shook your nation to the foundation, ravaged huge portions, and forced a move towards true unification.

It was a big deal for those envolved, and that includes all the generations that have had to live with the consequences.