Avoid the English conquest of Ireland

Actually, being an island is what screwed Ireland in my opinion. Sure they have sea protecting them, but the Irish are also completely on their own at the Western extreme of Europe, which is why continental European states struck more alliances with the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of southern Britain than with the more faraway sea island of the Irish where sending any kind of help was much more harder.
Ireland isn't that far away from mainland Europe compared to the Americas and in OTL there were multiple naval powers in western Europe so I don't think it would be that hard for Ireland to gain allies, Portugal and Scotland are distant from the core of Europe as well but managed to ally with England and France respectively, and like Ireland, Portugal and Scotland could also be considered a threat to Spanish and English security if they were allied to a foreign power using it as a base.
 
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