Reverse the roles of Britain and Ireland.....

Ak-84

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So that by 1899 we have island of Ireland in the position the Island of Great Britain was in 1899 and vice versa.

Rule Eire!
 
Time travel?

Either that or seriously mess around with the geography of the british isles. Make Ireland a larger, more fertile, wealthier island, and do the reverse to the island of Britain.
 
As The Red says England is just too great and Ireland too meh.
England (or more specifically southern England) is just so much better land than the rest of the isles. This gives us the situation where even if somehow the Irish do come to conquer England (somehow) then they would likely end up with their core lands around London.
To have a independent, rich, successful Ireland is difficult but doable. To have it as a UK level super power though is just ASB without utterly changing the definition of Ireland.
 
So that by 1899 we have island of Ireland in the position the Island of Great Britain was in 1899 and vice versa.

Rule Eire!

This misses the essential fact that Ireland is Ireland, whereas Great Britain is Great Britain. As people are point out, the only way to make this scenario is massive physical change... which has butterflies that will manifest before anything remotely resembling 1899 can come about. This is a silly idea.
 
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