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  1. Our United Nations

    A, preferably with some form of federal agreement in place.

  2. Is There a Napoleonic Unmentionable Sea Mammal Equivalent thread?

    Yeah, his description of why the 1798 rising failed is not particularly accurate. There's plenty of signs that many Irish Catholics hoped that a French invasion would liberate the island. Notably the popular Irish song "Wearing of the Green" actually originated as a song hoping for "Boney" to...

  3. Most vulnerable Western European states to communism?

    Irish republicanism wasn't particularly left-wing until the sixties, there was a faction within the IRA that supported a move towards socialist politics during the late twenties and early thirties, but they ultimately lost favour with the IRA leadership as a result of broader Irish society's...

  4. To the Victor, Go the Spoils (Redux): A Plausible Central Powers Victory

    I later edited that comment but regarding a British defeat encouraging nationalism it's less viewpoints changing to "screw Britain" and more that Britain's defeat would encourage people who have underlying nationalist sympathies but felt that the chance of successfully getting independence from...

  5. To the Victor, Go the Spoils (Redux): A Plausible Central Powers Victory

    It's confusing why the IPP got more seats than OTL, the party was a spent force at this point and I don't see any reason for it to change in this TL. Labour could take a few seats from Sinn Féin (OTL the Democratic Programme of 1919 was drafted as a sop to the Irish Labour Party in exchange for...

  6. The Fire Never Dies, Part II: The Red Colossus

    I'm not so sure, Ireland was during this time period extremely conservative, socialists within the IRA would get a bit of a boost but in OTL until the failure of the Border Campaign in the late 1950s and early 1960s brought about a questioning of republican strategy and the rise of a younger...

  7. Un Dios, Un Imperio, Un Rey | Alternate TL.

    Hasn't Ireland been independent for around 200 years at this point in this TL? It's unlikely that the British could join annex them out of the blue, consider that the Nine Years War almost drove the English into bankruptcy, and that was when the English had control of much of the island and many...

  8. Have more Celtic languages flourish to the present day

    For a more recent POD you could have Hugh O'Neill win the Nine Years War, the war was a very close-run affair OTL until the Irish screwed up badly at the Battle of Kinsale by organising a poorly prepared attack at the urging of the Spanish garrison when they had the English army surrounded and...

  9. AHC: Ireland not dominated by FG and FF

    Historically Irish politics were dominated by Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, with the Labour Party sometimes backing or going into government with one of the two (usually FG), until the 1990s. With a POD of 1922, can Ireland become a more multipolar democracy earlier? Potential opportunies for this...

  10. UK offer to Ireland 1940

    I find it extremely unlikely Ireland would remain in the Commonwealth (especially long-term) if the British were to break their agreements for the transfer of NI or at least some territory. It should be remembered that while the Irish government was covertly pro-Allied, both Éamon de Valera and...

  11. what happen to ireland in the world of nazi victory ?

    The IRA's left wing became marginalised during the 1930s due to Irish society's vehement anti-socialism in that period (Irish communists often could not even organise without being assaulted by angry mobs) and the Republican Congress debacle leading to many left-wing IRA members leaving or being...

  12. what happen to ireland in the world of nazi victory ?

    The IRA asked O'Duffy to join the organisation OTL during WW2 (though O'Duffy declined) and he attended a protest against American troops being based in Ireland alongside two former IRA Chief of Staffs. It's unlikely O'Duffy will be part of any collaboration government (too irrelevant at this...

  13. what happen to ireland in the world of nazi victory ?

    Eoin O'Duffy was politically irrelevant by WW2, it's highly unlikely he would be in charge of a puppet regime. As others suggested it's likely a collaboration government would be composed of the IRA (which was far right leaning at the time) and collaborationist members of the Irish government...

  14. Irish approach towards an Catholic british rulership.

    The problem is that the English saw the Irish as an inferior culture even before they converted to Anglicanism, something often forgotten is that Mary I in spite of being a Catholic settled English colonists in Ireland just as her successors did. Even James II of Jacobite fame revealed a very...

  15. An Irish victory at Kinsale?

    Hugh O'Neill and Hugh Roe O'Donnell suggesting crowning Philip II (the current thinking of the time was that the Irish were originally from Spain, Irish people in exile were given citizenship in Spain for centuries because of this) and Albert VII, the Archduke of Austria, so Ireland would likely...

  16. An Irish victory at Kinsale?

    The Nine Years War was extremely close-run and expensive for the English while they had much of Ireland under their control and many Irish nobles on their side or going with whoever seemed more likely to win, reconquering an Ireland completely separated from English control would be a much more...

  17. Napoleon invades Ireland in 1798

    According to the Count de Las Cases, one of Napoleon's regrets was invading Egypt in 1798 instead of Ireland. What if he had done so? He would've had the benefit of local support from the United Irishmen and being seen as a liberator by the Catholic population of Ireland (Fun fact: "The Wearing...

  18. Crises in a no ww2 world

    The IRA and the Abwehr did actually cooperate OTL (though without much success) and the ideology of the IRA and many of its leading members at the time were influenced by Nazi Germany as well as by domestic Irish fascist organisations such as Ailtirí na hAiséirghe (to the point that the IRA...

  19. Ireland as a Taiwan for some fallen English or British regime

    The English almost went bankrupt during the Elizabethan conquest of Ireland and came close to losing until the Battle of Kinsale went wrong for the Irish, and that was with much of Ireland under their control and many of the Irish nobility submitting to them. They would have a much harder time...

  20. WI: spanish armada Instead of invading England, invade ireland?

    The Battle of Kinsale went wrong due to bad luck and rash decision making on the part of the Irish, history might be very different if the Irish had besieged the English (who were already being decimated by disease and desertion) or picked a different and less stormy night to attack. Hugh...
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