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Points of Divergence : Ireland

Points of divergence concerning alternate historical developments within the modern day territory of Ireland.

Prehistory

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Antiquity

Challenge: Make wolves and bears survive as domestic wild species on the British Isles

The possibility of a Roman Ireland

Challenge: Viking or Irish or Welsh Azores by 1100

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The Middle Ages

Challenge: Make wolves and bears survive as domestic wild species on the British Isles

Challenge: Viking or Irish or Welsh Azores by 1100

Challenge: No Irish conversion to Christianity

No Irish Church

Challenge: Survival of the Celtic Church

WI: Celtic Christianity survives on the British Isles

Challenge: Gaelic-speaking Ireland

The state of an Ireland united by Brian Boru and a viable high-kingship, with the Norman settlement postponed

1066 PODs - Set during the time of the Norman invasion and the Battle of Hastings.

With a post-1066 POD, can anyone else rule Ireland ?

Ireland becoming independent in the 12th century ?

Results of a separate Angevin Irish Kingdom ?

An earlier (role for) Kingdom of Ireland

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Early Modern history

Challenge: Make wolves and bears survive as domestic wild species on the British Isles

Challenge: Gaelic-speaking Ireland

Protestant Ireland

How would the Irish langauge fare with Ireland as protestant as England ?

Challenge: Make Ireland the "Portugal of the North"

Kinsale, January 3rd 1602 : A different outcome of the battle ?

Plausibility check: Irish emigrants, mercenaries and/or globetrotters founding a small overseas colony in the New World ?

Ireland under the House of Stuart

Ireland under the House of Stuart and its effect on immigration

WI: No Irish Rebellion of 1798

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18th and 19th century

Challenge: Gaelic-speaking Ireland

Challenge: A united Ireland that stays in the Kingdom of Great Britain or the United Kingdom

Irish Potato Famine PODs

A dual monarchy : United Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland with a post-1860s POD ?

Challenge: Ireland remains completely in the United Kingdom but Irish is spoken more

What would an Irish Dominion of the British Empire be like if severel favourable PODs occured in the 19th century ?

Irish or German-dominated Argentina instead of Italian

Plausibility check: Ireland becoming a US state ?

Challenge: No independent Ireland

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20th century

Challenge: A heavily militarized Ireland

Plausibility check : A Union of Celtic Socialist Republics ?

WI Eamon de Valera executed in 1916 ?

Challenge: Irish Labour as major political party

Challenge: Franco style fascist Eire

Could DeValera have declared war on Germany in WWII ?

Just how significant could the IRA have been in WWII ?

WWII or post-war era Irish Air Force developments

32 county island of Ireland in NATO

Challenge: Most dystopian and most utopian Northern Ireland possible

Plausibility cheack: How bad could The Troubles get ?

WI: Ireland intervenes in The Troubles ?

WI Ulster and the rest of Ireland were united during The Troubles ?

Status of Ireland after a nuclear war (between the 1960s and 1990s)

Plausibility check: Ireland as a regional power in a post-nuclear war world ?

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21st century

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Miscellaneous

Large Jewish diaspora in Ireland

Irish immigration to Russia

Challenge: With ancient enough PODs, have Ireland colonize Britain !

Challenge: Have Irish dissidents take control of a British colony

Projects combined: A world with a realistic CSA victory and a quasi-Fascist United Ireland

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ASB / ISOT / Geological

Avalonia Alone - This one concerns how civilisation would have developed if Avalonia did not break up and remained a separate island in the middle of the Atlantic.

Landlocked Nations, Navies, and Islands ISOT to Waterworld

2012 Republic of Ireland ISOT to 1912 - A POD discussion that served as the basis for sparky42's eponymous timeline.

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See Also

Ireland

Irish Timelines and Scenarios

Useful Resources about Ireland


List of Countries by POD

Points of Divergence Main Directory