Would it be possible to have a large Irish immigrant community develop in the industrial cities of Germany between the 1840s and 1914? Have it, like in Britain and America, be largely working class and (almost) as significant as the Rhur poles.
Where do you think they would settle?
Would they have a higher status than the Polish Community and be less discriminated against? How would they fair under the Kulturkampf?
Which political party would they support? The Centre Party or the Social Democrats?
Can you imagine them hating the British and funding revolutionary nationalists like the Fenians in America?
Could you see the Gaelic league opening branches in German cities?
What do you think would happen to them during the First World War, lynching for being British or solidarity for being the enemy of the enemy?
What about propaganda?
Do you think they would have helped Roger Casement's campaign?
What about their descendants fate during the interwar and Nazi eras?
Where do you think they would settle?
Would they have a higher status than the Polish Community and be less discriminated against? How would they fair under the Kulturkampf?
Which political party would they support? The Centre Party or the Social Democrats?
Can you imagine them hating the British and funding revolutionary nationalists like the Fenians in America?
Could you see the Gaelic league opening branches in German cities?
What do you think would happen to them during the First World War, lynching for being British or solidarity for being the enemy of the enemy?
What about propaganda?
Do you think they would have helped Roger Casement's campaign?
What about their descendants fate during the interwar and Nazi eras?