You've read Male Rising haven't you?
Maybe I'll read it one day. I haven't finished reading so many timelines that it's outright embarassing at times.
You've read Male Rising haven't you?
Maybe I'll read it one day. I haven't finished reading so many timelines that it's outright embarassing at times.
I've always liked this alternate history, but I have to admit I've always felt the Irish nationalists turned socialist a little too quickly and easily. Minor quibble though.
I forgot how amusing the "Comber Beauchamp" touch was.
I really enjoyed this TL, especially the epilogue. I have a few questions:
-How exactly did D'Annunzio end up leading the Integralist movement in Italy? Did you use him because he's an interesting historical character underused in Alternate history?
-Why did the Royals flee to South Africa? Why not Canada, or Australia?
-Speaking of Canada, why didn't it join the Great War?
-What happened to Tolkien? Does he exist ITTL or was he butterflied away?
-How long will the Federation Workers' Republic last? I was under the impression it ended by the time some of the history books from the main narative were published.
Maybe I'll read it one day. I haven't finished reading so many timelines that it's outright embarassing at times.
I'm pretty sure that it's mentioned somewhere that by 1940 there's a Repubic Bill about to be intorduced into the Canadian Parliament.
John Tolkein is Professor of English at Cape Town University, and does some very interesting work on the side for South Africa's Secret Intelligence Department. As of 1940 he's currently contemplating writing a national epic for South Africa in the style of Beowulf or the Kalevala.
EdT said:John Tolkein is Professor of English at Cape Town University, and does some very interesting work on the side for South Africa's Secret Intelligence Department. As of 1940 he's currently contemplating writing a national epic for South Africa in the style of Beowulf or the Kalevala.
Well, just because I didn't really talk about that aspect in the TL doesn't mean there wasn't stuff going on there. Remember that as of 1890 or so Irish nationalism has had the absolute stuffing knocked out of it, first by the Parnell commission and then by Balfour's crackdown, and so there's a real generational shift from the old IPP era to new and more radical forms of nationalism. The Irish nationalist poster boy of the early 1900s is James Connolly, and ITTL and he's one of the first British Socialist Party MPs. I can see him playing a major role in the British Revolution when it comes; obviously there will be other strains of Irish nationalist thought, but given the events in the rest of the British Isles I think it's logical that the radicals get the upper hand.