Even if Guy Fawkes had been successful and destroyed Parliament House in London it is doubtful Catholic dissidents would have taken over the country. Their leader Robert Catesby and the majority of his fellow conspirators would still have been hunted down and killed in the English Midlands.
There would have been a power vacuum with the King, his two sons Princes Henry and Charles and many of the government officials and Lords who'd led the crackdown on Catholics in England dead.
A religion fueled civil war between Protestants and Catholics, as happened across much of the rest of Europe in the 17th Century, could have occurred.
Alternately the surviving Lords may have realised change was needed. Perhaps they would have advised the young Queen Elizabeth II to make England into a much more tolerant nation where people could worship at a church of their choosing. Forward thinkers and scientists persecuted by the Roman Inquisition may have fled to the country. Scientific advances may have been made much more easily and quickly.
If all this happened how would it have affected the future of Ireland, the colonization of North America and the future of the British Empire?
There would have been a power vacuum with the King, his two sons Princes Henry and Charles and many of the government officials and Lords who'd led the crackdown on Catholics in England dead.
A religion fueled civil war between Protestants and Catholics, as happened across much of the rest of Europe in the 17th Century, could have occurred.
Alternately the surviving Lords may have realised change was needed. Perhaps they would have advised the young Queen Elizabeth II to make England into a much more tolerant nation where people could worship at a church of their choosing. Forward thinkers and scientists persecuted by the Roman Inquisition may have fled to the country. Scientific advances may have been made much more easily and quickly.
If all this happened how would it have affected the future of Ireland, the colonization of North America and the future of the British Empire?