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According to the Duke of Tetuán, Hugo O'Donnell, shortly after becoming prime minister of Ireland Éamon de Valera raised the idea of an Irish monarchy with his grandfather Juan O'Donnell. What if Éamon de Valera had gone through with the idea and crowned the O'Donnells? Princes of Ireland...

They weren't universally pro-English during this time frame, many of the Fitzgeralds sided with the Irish such as the leaders of the Desmond Rebellions and the Súgán Earl of Desmond during the Nine Years' War and there were a few Butlers who sided with O'Neill during the Nine Years' War also.

In 1936 Irish fascist Eoin O'Duffy assembled an Irish Brigade to fight for Franco in Spain but what followed was basically Murphy's Law come to life as poor discipline, drunkenness, a lack of combat and an infamous friendly fire incident among other things took their toll on the unit's morale...

I always find it funny how Spain had a prime minister named O'Donnell and Ireland had a prime minister and president named de Valera.

Very interesting, looking forward to more.

RIP :( Still I know what you mean about losing enthusiasm with a timeline, oh well. Good luck on your next project.

To prevent the Famine from happening you would have to prevent the Penal Laws that were introduced after the Glorious Revolution, especially the Popery Act that forced Catholics to divide their land between their sons. America wasn't necessarily destined to be the main location of Irish...

Any news about this timeline?

True, that's why I suggested Leopoldo O'Donnell for a king, he's a Spanish noble and the descendant of one of the main Irish clans to have fought against the Elizabethan conquest of Ireland. A Bonaparte or Bourbon could work too as a king of Ireland given the history of Irishmen fighting for...

Jacobitism was long dead in Ireland at this point and the Jacobite claimant already has his own duchy in Modena, Leopoldo O'Donnell for King of Ireland.

It would be better, one of the main reasons that the Famine was so bad was that the British continued to export food from Ireland during it.

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In 1906, Patrick Pearse wrote an article in the newspaper An Claidheamh Soluis imagining the Ireland of 2006. Notably he theorised that in 2006: Ireland would be united and independent, have it's own High King, and speak Irish France would have an emperor Russia would be a republic Japanese...

I find the idea of a Spanish Ireland very interesting as well and think it could work, Irish exiles in Spain were officially considered to be fellow Spaniards in part due to the Irish mythologically descending from Míl Espáine who is said to have invaded Ireland from Iberia, and Hugh O'Neill and...

What would be the international effects of successful 1745 Jacobite rising? Would a Jacobite Britain become close to France or would the Anglo-French rivalry continue, and if Britain became pro-French how would this affect Austria and Prussia? Would it have any effects on the British Empire in...

Carmine Crocco tried supported by the Bourbons in exile in Spain but he ended up clashing with the Spanish general José Borjes who was sent to help them.

In 1900 a Belgian anarchist named Jean-Baptiste Spidio attempted to assassinate Crown Prince Edward over the Boer War. What would be the effect on Britain and Anglo-Belgian relations had he succeeded?

One thing that would be interesting to see regarding Ireland would be the propaganda war in Europe, the Irish Republic put a lot of effort into promoting their cause in Europe OTL during the War of Independence: https://www.difp.ie/browse-volumes/volume.asp?VolumeID=1&st=ye The British going...

What if the Irish and the Spanish won the Battle of Kinsale? Kings of Ireland Aodh I "the Great" (House of Ó Néill) 1604 - 1616 [1] [1] The deciding battle of the Eleven Years' War would be the Siege of Kinsale following the Spanish landing in Ireland under Juan del Aguila in October 1601...

What if Albert Kamehameha had lived to adulthood. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Kamehameha Kings and Queens of Hawaii Kamehameha V (House of Kamehameha) 1863-1899 [1] Elikapeka I (House of Kamehameha) 1899-1938 [2] Kamehameha VI (House of Kamehameha) 1938-1951 [3] Kamakawiwoʻole I...