Dominion of Ireland? WI Parnell hadn't had a fling?
Charles Stewart Parnell was a highly influential politician in the 1880s and 1890s. His Irish Parliamentary Party came perilously close to securing home rule for Ireland.
Parnell was a respected parliamentarian, of whom Gladstone - to name but one - thought very highly.
Ultimately, one Captain O'Shea was to be his undoing. O'Shea cited Parnell as the reason behind his divorce and claimed Parnell was the father of several of his wife's children.
Parnell never recovered from this, losing support from the Liberals and control of his own party.
By the time Home Rule re-emerged, the Unionists were organised politically, and they were armed.
Parnell is now regarded by some as a great 'lost leader'
So, my question is as follows:
What if Parnell had kept it inside his trousers? How would the UK, Ireland and the Commonwealth have developed?