Im personally aiming at the idea of making the irish feel as integrated into the UK as the scottish,would it be possible if they are given everything the scottish have?
OR... have the Easter Uprising gunmen treated with a little political tact and not executed. The Irish population considered them extremist nutters who were harming the campaign for Home Rule. When they were executed they became martyrs.
Or, going the other direction: WI De Valera was executed along with them? He was in a prison other than the one where the executions were taking place, and while there the powers that be started wringing their hands over whether he might be an American citizen. He wasn't, and his execution got the green light, but shortly after that London realized its mistake and stopped turning the uprising's leaders into martyrs.
If Eamon De Valera had been in the right prison (well, wrong prison for him) sooner, he gets a bullet with the others. I've asked this question on the NG before, and someone else asked it there last year, but it's worth revisiting... (and also keeps us post-1900 )
Thread by TheIrishDreamer (poster was banned earlier this year, so unless he/she is posting elsewhere on the web, the timeline may never be concluded): https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=279667
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Asking this in freely admitted ignorance for the purposes of being educated:
Didn't the Irish Question destroy the Liberal Party permanently as a ruling party?
Post 1924, it has Ireland, albeit an independent one, increasingly involved in things in terms of the empire/commonwealth.Kind of the opposite of what the OP was looking for, I would say.
Post 1924, it has Ireland, albeit an independent one, increasingly involved in things in terms of the empire/commonwealth.
It's the closest thing I remember seeing in the post-1900 forum to what the opening poster's looking for.
I don't know if or how it could have been prevented with a post 1900 POD.
My personal opinion is that Southern Ireland should have remained part of the UK because I believe that the British Isles is the best political and economic unit.
However, I acknowledge that there is more to life than politics and economics. How would the social history of Southern Ireland been changed it if had been part of the United Kingdom for the last 90-odd years? And it works the other way around too because the social history of the rump of the UK might have been different.
For a start there would have been scores of Roman Catholic MPs from Southern Ireland in Westminster. Would that have stopped the social reforms of the 1960s being introduced for a decade or two? That is the legalisation of abortion and homosexuality plus the changes to the divorce laws.