WI 85-100 Irish Nationalists At Westminister To This Day?

No Great War

With no Great War, the Home Rule goes into effect. The NORTH was prepared to use force to resist it...and you might have had the IRB fighting alongside British troops to defeat the rebellion in the north. Could go anywhere from there.

Certainly, if British troops and the moderate IRB fighters fought side by side to defend Irish rights against Carson and the northern rebels, there would be at least some more respect for the British--and perhaps staying in the Empire would work.
 
The British Army might not fight anyway.

At the end of the day the British government is going to find it hard to justify to the British public why they are using military force against people who want to stay in the Union to the advantage of those who do not (that's at least how it would be painted). I suspect what is now Northern Ireland would be excluded - that's how it was trending anyway.
 
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