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I've just got back from a college visiting trip in Virginia yesterday (saw William & Mary and American University) but also went to Busch Gardens on the way. We walked through the Ireland section of the park and I really liked it...

Anyway, Ireland is really close to New France (in Busch Gardens) and the wheels in my head started turning.

I've seen it before with PODs in the 400s and 500s, but what about a colonial Irish Empire right along side the French and Spanish colonial Empire's we're familiar with?

Not too easy, but I figure that maybe with a Catholic alliance of sorts in the 1520s to counter the Reformation, Spain could ally with the Irish, set up a national Irish throne, and land troops in Ireland. This could perhaps nationalize the Irish much earlier than in OTL.

Perhaps the Spaniards give the Irish ships, or they develop them on their own, and soon enough have a colony in Cwebec. Perhaps because he has failed in his campaigns, Sir Humphrey Gilbert settles the first English colony on New Brunswick and the British colonial Empire begins there.

Any thoughts? This is just the beginning of a work in progress.
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