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There was a distinct fear in the Protestant communities of Northern Ireland before the Irish Free State's establishment of "Rome Rule" being imposed on them. This never of course bore out to be true, and the old canard about Catholic governments all taking their orders from Rome did not hold much water either.

But what if it had? The Republic of Ireland after all banned divorce mostly at the behest of the clergy. The Irish Fascist movement never really picked up much steam, and the volunteers for Franco were more of an abberation than anything else, but basically, is there any chance that an openly Clerical Fascist party could take over Eire sometime before the Second World War and start persecuting or harassing Anglicans? The Anglican Church in Southern Ireland had lost a fair amount of people due to many of them moving away, but the remaining Anglo-Irish weren't exactly a popular minority in the early years. The Big Houses didn't magically burn themselves down, after all.

And ultimately, would a Fascist Ireland persecute based off of religion or ethnic Anglo status? There never was much chance of Ireland going fascist, but the core elements of fascist possiblity (historical humiliation that could be cleansed with ritualistic ceremony, territorial revanchism towards the North and the treaty ports, ethnic fraternity, an "other" that can be hated and has been historically hated, an economy that was weak and a breeding ground for populism and losing out through emigration) were there, which might make this at least slightly possible with the right POD.

How would this be brought about?
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