Is there any plausible POD or series of butterflies in which Ireland becomes American?
That seems a simple enough description...
That seems a simple enough description...
Is there any plausible POD or series of butterflies in which Ireland becomes American?
That seems a simple enough description...
Considering the Irish people spent pretty much 700 years fighting to have an independent Irish nation...I'm guessing no.
Considering the Irish people spent pretty much 700 years fighting to have an independent Irish nation...I'm guessing no.
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That's a gross simplification, of a rather convoluted history.
Remember, America's love affair with romanticised Irish culture is a (relatively) recent development. Remember, up to probably the 1900s or so the Irish were regarded by mainstream American culture as little more than lower class scum (certainly in comparison to the German and Scandinavian immigrant populations). The Irish Americans, as a whole only really started gentrifying in the first decade of the 20th century. Without Irish entry into mainstream American culture why would there be any interest in Ireland at all? To most 19th century WASPS it would merely be perceived as a disgusting boggy island full of Papists.
I get this is before-1900's but a pod in the cold war might lead to occupation of Ireland to stop it going communist or something
No; Only through an extremely implausible and convoluted series of PODs, handwavium and butterflies could this come to pass.