As the title says. The challenge is to have Ireland turn Communist shortly after WWI. Cookie if you manage to include the whole island.
While I agree that getting Ireland to a communist viewpoint is extremely difficult (just look at the hard lefts election results over the years), perhaps if the 1913 lock out had gone differently a stronger hard left position might have been possible?
Not even sure that would have swung the matter as far as required. You may well have seen a more left wing Dublin and maybe Cork however don;t forget that at the time Ireland was very much a rural country population wise. and they would not have changed much. Either way the national question was the dominant question and hence there was in effect no room for a large communist party
Even the lock out had limited support outside Dublin in regards socialism, it received some nationalist support but i think 1913 showed the max extent of socialism in Ireland.