OK, let's say there's no outbreak of WWI in 1914- would there then have occurred an earlier CW in Ireland between the Irish Volunteers & Union Volunteers ? How would such a conflict have played out for the British govt ?
could you tell me where i could find thid english ireland of which you speak?This scenario was considered in Niall Fergusson's "English Ireland" in which the Liberals force through home rule. He suggests that were there to be armed resistance from the loyalists the Tories would have been forced to withdraw their support from them. Once they indluged in armed rebellio n against the drown, they could harldy be called loyalists. The civil war would not have been as nasty as the Irish civil war as the two communities were to some extent sperated.
The Curragh Mutiny would have been a minor affair of a few officers resigning their commissions. Ultimately the army and the RIC would bwe drawn in to keep the peace. I suspect that a provincial parliament for Ulster might have split off the more moderate loyalists from the hard liners
However Britain also faced its own internal conflict with a threatened autumn series of strikes.
John Redmond may well have gone down in the history books rather than Micheal Collins and De Valera