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In 1555, Pope Paul IV's issued a papal bull "Ilius, per quem Reges regnant", which bestowed the crown of the Kingdom of Ireland on Philip II of Spain and Mary I of England as part of a Catholic claim. We know what happened to Mary I. But what if Philip II really hung onto that claim? How...

So I like to wonder about what a world with a Plantagenet victory in The 100 years war would be like. Although I believe that England would not have been gallicized outside of London, A Plantagenet state would still have a French upperclass. But when discussing this TL concept, most people focus...

Say by OTL Acts of Union in the early 18th century the Churches of England, Ireland and Scotland become unified. This was a long term goal of the Stuarts which was never fulfilled, unlike the political unification of Scotland and England which did occur. What would this new Church look like...

After judicial killing of Thomas FitzGerald, 7th earl of Desmond by John Tiptoft, FitzGerald family led a short uprising. It was only quelled after an ultimatum by Edward IV where he gave them two choices, lay down arms and be forgiven or fight. It always struk me as odd why the FitzGerald...

On the evening of 11 September 1918 David Lloyd George was found to have contracted the Spanish Flu. For 10 days he was in intensive care, and it was described by staff as “touch and go”. What if he had died from the flu? This was before the 1918 election and indeed before the coupons were sent...

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...

The Great Famine was one of the (if not the) worst catastrophes to ever hit Ireland. The enormity of the death toll and the emigration that followed meant that, even today, the Irish population today (counting both the Republic and NI) is still smaller than what it was before the famine. So...

When Ireland was admitted as a full member of the United Kingdom in 1800-1801, prime minister William Pitt the Younger wanted this to be combined with a law ensuring Catholic emancipation. The objective of this was to assuage any concerns that London would automatically side against Irish...

What if instead going directly to England, the Spanish together with their armada decides to take Ireland instead so it can be used as a launch pad for future invasion of Britain. Now if they succeed to take Ireland, how will this change Irish, Spanish and English history? Also their history...

OTL Ireland was still a bunch of independant clans/tribes at the time. Could they unify and if so could they resist england much longer?

What would the Troubles look like in a United Ireland? How would Dublin respond to a low-level insurgency from the Protestants in Ulster? Would there even be an insurgency, or would the loyalists move to Britain instead to stay with the crown? As for how this United Ireland might come about, I...

Richard de Clare, Earl of Pembroke was sailing to Ireland to claim the Overlordship of the Kingdom of Leinster granted to him by his Majesty, Henry II. That Henry II did not own Leinster to portion out was irrelevant to Richard's mind. He intended to seize the Norse-Gaelic port towns of Dublin...

Bit of a gruesome scenario, but I could not find a post on this forum discussing it. The Whig government continues its policy of laissez-faire and does not abandon it in 1847. The potato crops do not recover in 1852. At least 500,000 more people either die or immigrate. While obviously in this...

Hello all, So, yesterday was the Twelfth of July -- the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne. I was wondering -- what would have happened if James II defeated William of Orange? I think it quite unlikely for James to retake England or Scotland -- he'd already been ousted by William, who had...

Greetings! First, I'm just a amateur when it comes to history, and I'm still learning about Scandinavian, british and Irish history. However, I thought this scenario could be interesting. I already posted a similar thread a year ago (no one commented), but now I decided to post a slightly...

I find the intended plan for Ontario (originally Upper Canada) fascinating: to replicate England, again, except better than last time they did it in New England. To this end, they even thought the counties should be named the same. From south to north, it even matches the east coast of England...

In 870 CE the stronghold of Alt Clut (now Dumbarton Rock) fell after a four month siege to a Viking army from Dublin, led by Amlaib and Imar, the ruler of Dublin and his brother, respectively. Alt Clut was the center of a small but wealthy Brittonic kingdom and controlled access to the lowlands...

Say that a successful devolved government of Ireland act passes in the early 1900s – preferably before the Great War. What would be the political, demographic, religious and economic consequences throughout the 20th century for the UK as a whole? Are the Troubles avoided, or do they make OTL...

One of the major reasons that Ireland remained Catholic was that Protestantism was seen as the faith of the English oppressors. But was it possible for them to consider a non-Anglican branch? Was there any way for Scottish Presbyterianism to reach Ireland and be seen as a way to remain outside...

The Siege of Kinsale was the most important engagement of the Nine Years' War, the biggest rebellion to take place in Ireland during the Tudor period. IOTL the English defeated the rebels and their Spanish allies, eventually crushing the revolt entirely roughly a year later. But what if the...