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During the first wrold war Britain had to also fight in Ireland against the flipping Irish Republicans who wanted independence from Great Britain! By 1916 or so a deal was reached that 6 counties would gain their independence and the other 26 counties got their independence!

I've often wondered, however, what If Britain had actually defeated the Irish repubublicans? I know Britian had most of it's troops in Europe at the time but is it even just about possible that Britian could hold out untill after 1918 so that it can free some soilders up by 1919 to send to Dublin to re-take controll of the whole of Ireland again? Would, in 2008, the whole of Ireland still be a part of Britian? Would there have been the sectarian trouble we had from 1969-1999?

BTW, I'm a protestant born and bred and still living in Northern Ireland, so this quiestion and any answers I get would be of great interest to me....thanks!

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