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What if the Gaelic Irish aristocracy and their subjects had converted to protestantism just as Tudor England had, and at the same time? How would the Kingdom of Ireland evolve differently if there hadn't been any rebellion? Would an Irish parliament be set up but dominated by an indigenous Irish aristocracy rather than the Anglo-Irish Ascendency? Would there be an act of Union in 1801?

I personally see a scenario where you have the Kingdom of Ireland, just like in OTL but dominated by the Gaelic and Hiberno-Norman Aristocracy and without any plantations. The Church of Ireland becomes the church of the majority and uses the Irish translation of the Bible. The Irish parliament, is like OTL, subordinate to Westminster as a result of Poyning's law but with the enlightenment, a Gaelic equivalent of Henry Grattan and the Patriots at the end of the eighteenth century achieves more powers for the parliament. However Ireland remains very feudal and conservative under the Gaelic Aristocracy.

Political radicalism develops, but rather than being nationalist, favours more democratisation and liberalism. Thus instead of organisations such as the United Irishmen and Daniel O'Connell's Catholic Emancipation campaign, radicalism develops with the aim of overthrowing the Irish aristocracy or at least democratising the parliament. An attempted revolution takes place in the first half of the 19th century and the British bring in troops to suppress the rebellion while forcing reforms on the Irish aristocracy that are similar to the OTL Great Reform Act, while also bringing in free trade. They could even have an act of union then. It is this, rather than OTL Catholic Emancipation, which leads to a Whig government in Westminster and the Great Reform Act.
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