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Any way for Belfast to become capital of Ireland and replaces Dublin during some PoD?
It may well have had a higher population at one stage!
If we're talking about the Republic, you need the Plantation of Ulster to fail to even get it into the country. Belfast pretty much didn't exist until long after that, so it doesn't seem possible.
The only way I can see it happening is if you have a lot more Protestants in the country, and have them be much more widespread. And that makes independence pretty unlikely.
Well this is pre-1900 so pretty much throws out discussions of partition and the Troubles.
So by capital of Ireland do you mean capital of British-controlled Ireland?