Irish civil war question

I'm working on a story where the IRA in the irish civil war do a lot better and nearly win but for intervention by the British and I wanted to know what could help this to happen
 
Britsh intervention led to the Irish civil war, also both sides of the Sinn Fein split were due to divy out government ministerial posts to each other prior to the civil war and it didn't help that Collins, the big fella reneged on this one! The Brits would never tolerate an anti-treaty victory, which could never have happened anyway because the pro-treatyites knew where all the safe houses were! BTW had the Jaffa Statelette ever become a more serious ethnic cleansing issue than it was, the Brits would also substantially intervene as it could not tolerate a Bosnia on its doorstep!
 
The only way Britain was likely to intervene was if the Anti-Treaty IRA faction was on the verge of winning unless the IRA launched attacks on British territory or rather mainland Britain. The anti-treaty element probably had little support from the public who wanted an end to hostilities.De Valera realised this and steered clear of armed hostility. The 6 counties had been written off effectively a lot earlier and the only practical way of changing this lay with a genuine border commission which is how Collins thought change could come so the sticking point was the oath of allegience.

There is no way a hostile state would be tolerated. When the moderate anti treaty faction came to power under De Valera, the IRA were interned. De Valera realised the realities of change and won concessions including removal of the Treaty Ports, a republic came later.
 
Pretty much yeah.
A lot of Irish nationalists like to rave about how the British were 'beaten' but they weren't really; they were planning for Southern Irish home rule anyway, there just wasn't any point in fighting about it when the ones in charge in Ireland were open to reason.
Should this look like changing however...
 

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Pretty much yeah.
A lot of Irish nationalists like to rave about how the British were 'beaten' but they weren't really; they were planning for Southern Irish home rule anyway, there just wasn't any point in fighting about it when the ones in charge in Ireland were open to reason.

Funny how they did fight about it until the last minute then, eh?;)
 
Pretty much yeah.
A lot of Irish nationalists like to rave about how the British were 'beaten' but they weren't really; they were planning for Southern Irish home rule anyway, there just wasn't any point in fighting about it when the ones in charge in Ireland were open to reason.
Should this look like changing however...
I never said how bad for Ireland the story was going to end up. For reference it is a fairly grim story
 
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