samcster94
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What are the odds of Home Rule under Queen Victoria's reign(even with Orange Protestant stonewalling)??? A painting depicts that alternate history given the painter predicted it would happen but it never did.
it came pretty close to happening. at one point it passed the house, but was blocked by the lords.Home rule given to the Protestant Anglo-Irish? Maybe. Home rule given to the Catholic Irish? Not a chance.
Indeed. That is true.it came pretty close to happening. at one point it passed the house, but was blocked by the lords.
I heard somewhere that Parliament did decide to give Ireland Home Rule, but this happened in 1914 and not long before WW1. So it was put on hold.
It wasn't only the Protestant elite but also lower middle class shopkeepers and farmers and working class Protestants who were unhappy. What made this particularly difficult was their concentration in Ulster where they had a local majority in six counties. No-one voluntarily seeks to become part of a minority group when (as part of the UK) they were part of an overall majority although a local minority.
Would it be feasible to have Home Rule in OTL's Southern Ireland, with the six counties continuing to be governed from Westminster?
This is what it ended up being in the final Irish Home Rule bill.
Would this have been feasible in earlier ones - difficult to say.