Union of Celtic Socialist Republics ?

Basically Impossible

Ireland has never really had a sucessful scocialist/communist party on the Europe model. Even Irish Labour would be far from that standard.
Yes some of the men involved in the rising were socialist inclined and some in the war of independence but Irish nationalism was very nationalist and religiius based at the time. You'd basically have to rewrite history for decades to do that. We were too agricultural a sector to do the that.

Theres a revision of history and well facts on at the moment basing on the recent IRA who were Marxist inspired but remeber there from relatively industrialised North which impacted the "working class" nature of the struggle. The War of Indepence was a very differnt thing. And the Wind that Shakes the Barley wouldnt be the most factual film around.

And Celticism? Nonsense basically. Theres pan-celtic stuff now but nothing political, its just cultural links and such.
 

Morty Vicar

Banned
Agreed. None of the 'celtic nations' or regions (barring England) have anywhere near the industrialised working class populations to mount a successful revolution. The closest you could have is maybe some sort of khmer rouge style agrarian movement. But it would not be socialist to my understanding. For one thing the Irish nationalist movement (which is at the heart of this topic) is very stringly influenced by Roman Catholicism, which historically was at odds with socialism and communism in Spain, South America, Vietnam etc. Secondly the idea of a Socialist movement confined to one ethnic or racial group, whilst not unprecedented (ie Yugoslavia, Basque seperatists etc) is fairly strange to me, nationalist or patriotic, even racial ideology is better suited to Fascism if anything. Incidentally the Catholic church was historically pretty cosy with various Fascist movements. I heard that every Fascist nation was Roman Catholic but I'm not sure, Germany was evenly split between protestant and catholic.
 
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