I watched the movie "The wind that shakes the barley" a few days ago. The characters of this movie are fighting for the IRA during the Irish war of independance ; I remember that they mentionned a "Celtic Socialist Republic"
while they were praying... I immediately thought about an Alternate History and a POD
So, is this plausible ? I mean, what if something really bad happened during WWI, leading to an even more violent conflict than in OTL ? Or, let's suppose, a Central Power victory after an horrible war, leading to rebellions in the former Alliance countries ? Could the peoples of celtic lands (Ireland, Scotland, Isle of Man, Cornwall, Bretagne, Walles) unite against imperialism of both France and UK to create an independant and socialist country ?
I don't know what kind of socialism they were talking about : I just suppose it could have been a goulasch of Anarchy and communism. I heard of intellectuals of celtic countries, like Emile Masson in Bretagne, who supported at the beginning of the XXth century a celtic socialism.
I suppose that the celtic rebels could have take over Ireland first, and then support other rebellion movements in the rest of the United Kingdom and in France.
I seems to be ASB to me, but that could be a nice POD...
(P.S : Sorry about my English...

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