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Given historically the British Administration cast an extremely wide net with little constraints, for every "terrorist" you end up with at least one other Irish person whose an innocent bystander...

Why would send relatively untrained and I’ll disciplined people to a front, and what exactly do you think the other Irish divisions are going to do in such a case, bring forward the Connacht mutiny...

Not sure that really works compared to historic actions like that, by this time the world has got a lot smaller, their ability to be able to still interact with and influence Irish affairs will still be there to a certain degree. Not to mention the impact of such a reaction to an armed revolt in...

There's still a full chance of them being considered "martyrs" just as you see 50 years later in the Troubles, and again you are still facing the issue that as in OTL the UK is likely to round up everyone involved or just suspected of involvement and interned, and like Frongoch in OTL you are...

I could certainly see both the points, I just wonder how much strength they will have to spare, I mean if it's a CP victory, then it opens up the potential for far more widespread issues, does France's Colonial Empire stay? does Germany seek to expand some of their Empire at the expense of...

I'd agree that they are more likely to be hardline, but as pointed out they are likely to be facing serious internal issues themselves if they suffered a defeat, remember they had internal issues even without Ireland after winning, a loss will likely increase this.

No actually it was the IRB that was responsible for the Rising, the IRA came into being after that. Moreover had the arms arrived perhaps you would have seen the larger original plan carried out as the Volunteers don't get conflicting orders. As to those fighting at the Western Front , feelings...

I don't think just not killing them will change things that much, the IPP is still pretty much broken by the fallout of this and the Conscription Crisis the following year while SF will continue growing stronger while Dublin Castle will most likely screw up handling the growth of the party.

Then they are symbols to those who are still against UK rule, meanwhile you have the fallout of the Conscription crisis that will also radicalise people as SF use it, meanwhile Dublin Castle will remain it's utter shambles that it was throughout this period leaving Westminster playing catch up...

It wasn't a forgone conclusion, hell the trigger was only pulled in '47 because of the utter pigs ear the Governor General of Canada managed to piss of the Taoiseach of the day, even Dev was conflicted over the move then. Ireland will end up as a dominion, that's inevitable simply due to the end...

It wasn't popular for many different reasons, from those that did think it was treason to simple matters (they took the GPO on the day that wives/family members would be getting the wages from troops, needless to say they were pissed off). Even without the executions (which seems unlikely) the...

The Volunteers had circa 15K, not sure how much arms and supplies they would have had, meanwhile the British had over 16K in Dublin in OTL to crush that Rising. Given the positions of the major barracks I'd expect most of the major cities to be held relatively easily, which by and large is all...

Given that British Intelligence actually had a fairly good understanding of what was going on, while I'd expect more widespread chaos as some IVF units take action, soon enough British forces would be brought in enough to squash the Rebellion even if it's more widespread, but then you get into...

Nah, Plastic Paddy's are the ones that act like they know more than Irish people (usually by throwing out stereotypes from Hollywood, or thinking we're all raging 'Ra heads, Chrsit knows how I got out of a few Irish Pubs in Boston when I let my feelings on that be known)... To come back on...

How many families do you think got a letter from "Uncle Paddy" saying "X factory is hiring Y new workers for 4 times the Irish dole, you can stay at our house and earn far more than at home", as I said it's a pattern that we've seen over and over. How much of what motivated them is something...

Maybe if was someone else than Churchill and Dev the 1940 offer might have gone somewhere, but even that has plenty of headwinds against it, I think that's fair to say. Of course with the interconnections that existed plenty would work in the UK, my point however is this is the normal pattern...

Irish-US relations were utter shit throughout this period, the US isn't going to be jumping to aid Ireland, and forget a Transhipment point, there just isn't the capacity in the harbours for such operations at this time. Even for Holy Catholic Ireland I think it's a stretch for something...

To be honest it's not just the damage from the bomb, there was also the mine strike she took during the invasion campaign and support operations, I imagine combined it would have utterly broken her back.

For FG, it would have been political suicide at the time to have even tried to float changing Ireland's position, having never had the wider strength that FF spent time building up before '32. And as I said it dates all the way back to 1922 as it was made clear to the British that Ireland would...

Maybe if Dev wasn't in charge by that point, I could possibly see that, though given how the US-Irish relations were pretty much shite during the War I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't have a huge impact post war, there's no chance that Ireland could have deployed any force even at that point...