During WWI, there were some perfunctory German attempts to form an Irish Free Legion from among captured Irishmen in the British Army in German POW camps to fight the British, but without any success. However, WI such efforts had been more successful, & some Irish Free Legion had been formed from Republican Irishmen ? How would events in Eire proper such as the 1916 Easter Rising have been affected, or re the Irish diaspora in the USA & Cth countries who had substantial Irish-born or descended soldiers serving the British Empire ?