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  1. Talus I of Dixie

    Mid/long-term consequences of a still-Gaelic Scotland?

    A bit of background to those unfamiliar with the earlier chapters of (properly) Scottish history, before what scholarship calls the Davidian Revolution (a series of institutional reforms propagated by King David I) was something like your prototypical image of a gaelic kingdom, and it could be...
  2. Ursogulos

    AHC: Longer war of the Roses results in a divided England, what are the chances for the Irish to hang on till 1700s?

    This is a challenge which popped up in my head following a similar situation in my TL. Your job is to make the disparate Irish chiefdoms survive and coalesce into native Irish kingdom(s) and put off the English for as long as 1700s. Pod is war of the roses. You can divide England into two parts...
  3. durante

    Canadian Gaelic

    IOTL Cape Breton, which would become the center of the Gaelic speaking community in Canada, was a separate colony from Nova Scotia briefly from after the ARW until 1820. If it's not reintegrated into Nova Scotia in 1820, it would become a majority Gaelic speaking colony. The addition of a...
  4. AntoniousTheBro

    WI and AHC: Greater Pict cultural integration.

    In a quick explanation to the question. i was reading about the cultural make up of the Scottish dark ages during the 8th century and the formation of the kingdom of Alba Aka Scotland and the Gaelicization of the Picts and to a lesser extant the Britons, and form what i read it is implied while...
  5. WI: Surviving Gaelic Ireland in the present day.

    What if Gaelic Ireland managed to avoid English conquest? Could they even keep the High King position in some form into the present? Perhaps becoming a federation at some point? How would Europe develop? would Ireland get in on the colonial game?
  6. Trilingual Scotland into the 20th century

    Here is a linguistic map of Scotland from the year 1400. As you can see, the Scandinavian language, Norn, was spoken in Orkney, Sheltand, and Caithness. Norn would linger on until the 18th century. The ATL in this scenario is that Norn manages to survive intact at 'commoner level' until at...
  7. WI more widely spoken Canadian Gaelic?

    This afternoon, I dropped by the Toronto Reference Library to browse its shelves. As one would expect, Toronto's central library has a very large collection of materials in languages other than English, ready for lenders to pick up. Out of curiosity, I stopped by to see what the Scots Gaelic...
  8. Consequences of the Irish Language surviving whilst under British Rule?

    If you think about the decline of the Irish Language and how the Country switched to English under British Rule, you realize just how strange such a transition was. After all, Finland was under Russian and Swedish Rule yet it never switched to Swedish or Russian. The non-German ethnicities in...
  9. WI: Scotland stays Gaelic

    What would the consequences be if Lowland Scotland had not switched to English between been 1100 and 1500 and if Scotland had been as Gaelic speaking in 1707 as it had been in 1100?
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