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Points of Divergence : 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
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The Middle Ages
Challenge: Make wolves and bears survive as domestic wild species on the British Isles
Challenge: No Irish conversion to Christianity
WI: Celtic Christianity survives on the British Isles
Challenge: Gaelic-speaking Ireland
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
Challenge: Make Ireland the "Portugal of the North"
Kinsale, January 3rd 1602 : A different outcome of the battle ?
Ireland under the House of Stuart and its effect on immigration.
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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
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
Irish or German-dominated Argentina instead of Italian
Plausibility check: Ireland becoming a US state ?
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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 ?
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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Miscellaneous
Large Jewish diaspora in Ireland
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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