Views of the United Irishmen in a modern United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Assuming that over the course of the 19th/20th century, through whatever mix of Home Rule, better socio-economic policy and handwavium you decide, the UK was able to keep Ireland within the UK how would the various Irish nationalist revolutionaries be remembered and viewed in the Ireland of the ATL?

I'd have a image of an ATL Ireland in a political position within the Union quite like Bavaria is in OTL today with a parallel local party system with links to British parties but no significant separatist movement, however, feel free to modify Ireland's position within the Union and the constitutional arrangements as you see fit.

While the Fenians may well be butterflied away by whatever changes tamp down Irish nationalism I can certainly imagine the POD taking place after the 1798 rebellion and I'd be interested in seeing how they, and any other of the Irish "martyrs" that survive the butterflies, might be viewed today if things had turned out differently.
 
Ireland would probably be much like Scotland and Wales, eager to assert their Celtic identity but otherwise broadly content with the situation. It took a lot of incompetence to drive them to violence OTL.
 

Nocrazy

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Ireland would probably be much like Scotland and Wales, eager to assert their Celtic identity but otherwise broadly content with the situation. It took a lot of incompetence to drive them to violence OTL.

Yeah, it wasn't just incompetence. Little someone called Cromwell. Sorta a big deal.

Also, religious differences. That played a part. More for identity.

Ireland suffered under British rule, and wouldn't be happy if it was today.
 

Saphroneth

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Yeah, it wasn't just incompetence. Little someone called Cromwell. Sorta a big deal.

Also, religious differences. That played a part. More for identity.

Ireland suffered under British rule, and wouldn't be happy if it was today.
Cromwell was about three and a half centuries ago. If things had subsequently been resolved, it would be about as relevant as the incredibly bloody suppression of the Vendée revolt is in modern French politics.

The reason I brought up the Canadian example is that there were religious and ethnic differences in Canada and that one got worked out nicely.
So there's a model there, at least.
It would certainly take a pre 1900 PoD, though - the absolute most you can get with a Post 1900 PoD is a kind of distant home rule.
 
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