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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...

"Those who heard Mason's speech in 1976 were relieved by his simplistic stance. He saw the situation in Ulster as a military one and was determined to continue the SAS' South Armagh theatre. Those who "understood" his speech knew different. He was determined to make Ulster his domain and create...

AT ANY COST Some of the older gays said that “Civil Assistance” had been as bad as the National Integrity mob were now back in the 70s, but Alan found that hard to believe. Had Civil Assistance ever come into the quarter and burnt down a whole block of flats? Maybe, but no one could give any...

If the Irish Language had survived meaning that in 1900 it is as widely spoken outside Protestant Ulster as Czech was in Bohemia at the time, would language, rather than religion, be the main division in Ireland?

Until 1998, treason was an hanging offense in Britain, and although IRA member were convicted for murder and various violent offense, none was indicted for Treason even though some lawyers might argue they were waging war against the Queen in her realm, as Mssrs Justice Donaldson and Bridge...

I'm still trying to develop my Frozen Spring TL although not making much progress, for a range of complicated reasons. However here's the position on which I want thoughts. Some of these I've raised before, but the emphasis is changing. As a reminder the POD is a mismanaged military response to...

My initial aim in devising this ATL was to put German troops into an occupied Tyneside during the severe winter of 1947. This arose out of some short stories I was working on set in that same milieu. I have had at least two attempts including one of those periodic “what if Sealion had succeeded”...