AHC: Irish Parliamentary Party survives to present day

What if the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Parliamentary_Party survived to this day? surviving partition.
Better post-Independence leadership perhaps? The party becomes a soft Nationalist opposition in Norn Iron (SDLP/lite) and maintains a small presence in the south. You'd almost certainty have to eliminate the Civil War, or drastically reduce it.
In fact with the more socially radical elements remaining within the fold the IPP could because a small conservative opposition in the south.
 
The Nationalist Party in the North was essentially the continuation of the IPP (or its constituency organisation) and lingered on until 1969. The equivalent in the South was the National League, which mutated into the National Centre Party, which in turn folded into Fine Gael in 1933, with a subsequent FG leader (James Dillon) being the son of the last IPP leader in the House of Commons (John Dillon).
 
The Nationalist Party in the North was essentially the continuation of the IPP (or its constituency organisation) and lingered on until 1969. The equivalent in the South was the National League, which mutated into the National Centre Party, which in turn folded into Fine Gael in 1933, with a subsequent FG leader (James Dillon) being the son of the last IPP leader in the House of Commons (John Dillon).
True, I could have put my reply better (I blame using a phone...).
However the NP(NI) was a relatively leftist party, the predecessor of the SDLP ideologically and probably not suited to a larger showing in the post-partition years.
I'd envisaged something rather more conservative, though still nationalist, and not boycotting the NI parliament.
 
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