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  1. Striving for a world transformed by justice and peace - a TL from 1827

    The correct spelling is Cumann na mBan. Countess Markievicz was Constance Gore-Booth; Eva was her sister. Also Collins Barracks is named after Michael Collins and was called Victoria Barracks at the time.

  2. Scotland, Callaghan, Thatcher and others. A timeline from March 1979

    The two Pattens are not related IRL.

  3. UK offer to Ireland 1940

    The "Strabane and Omagh" you're drawing there (apart from Omagh town) corresponds to the North Tyrone Stormont constituency which was designed to have a Unionist majority; the surrounding areas - Glenelly, Carrickmore and the Sperrins to the east, the area around Aghyaran to the west - are much...

  4. UK offer to Ireland 1940

    Strabane was always unredrawable as Unionist-controlled even under the ratepayer franchise (the 1898 wards survived until the demise of that version of local government in 1973). The closest ward in 1911 was North Urban which was still over 60% Catholic; East Urban was 90%+ and the other two...

  5. UK offer to Ireland 1940

    There may have been more of a Protestant commercial presence in both towns then than now, but Strabane was almost 75% Catholic (3806/5156) and Omagh more than 60% Catholic (3159/5123) in the 1926 Census.

  6. Keeping the British Liberal Party flag flying high

    Net changes at the moment (assuming Ilford North was a Con gain from Lib; it's not clear in the original posting) Lib -72 Con +37 SLab +35 UU +1 Prog -1

  7. Keeping the British Liberal Party flag flying high

    Dimbleby died in 1965. Cliff Michelmore presented the 1966 and 1970 election nights on BBC IOTL.

  8. Keeping the British Liberal Party flag flying high

    Carlton is/was to the east of Nottingham. Are you sure you don't mean Rushcliffe? And did we ever find out which seat Hugh Fraser was elected for? :)

  9. Keeping the British Liberal Party flag flying high

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  10. Keeping the British Liberal Party flag flying high

    Richard Dimbleby would still have been presenting; IOTL David was still a whippersnapper sent to interview Harold Wilson arriving at Euston on the Liverpool express the morning after.

  11. Keeping the British Liberal Party flag flying high

    Maybe I'm missing something but from the 1960 election:

  12. Roosevelt Spelling Reform

    Irish and Scottish Gaelic spelling is more logical than English, once you understand the rules. The problem is that you're trying to fit two sets of consonants (palatalised and velarised like Russian) into an alphabet without diacritics (well, we used to have diacritics for consonants, such as...

  13. WI: All of Ulster in Northern Ireland

    There wasn't a "Roman Catholic vote" on the issue for reasons which should be obvious given 18th century Irish history. You're referring to the two votes of the (exclusively Anglican) Irish Parliament, the first before and the second after a considerable number of palms had been greased.

  14. AHC: Irish Parliamentary Party survives to present day

    The Nationalist Party in the North was essentially the continuation of the IPP (or its constituency organisation) and lingered on until 1969. The equivalent in the South was the National League, which mutated into the National Centre Party, which in turn folded into Fine Gael in 1933, with a...

  15. TLIAM: Killing Home Rule with Kindness

    One other point about your putative IPP leadership is that Devlin and his West Belfast Nationalist ghetto politics was always an anomaly within the IPP (I'm not sure that the AOH were that much of a factor outside Ulster, where they acted as a counterpoint and counterweight to the OO). A more...

  16. TLIAM: Killing Home Rule with Kindness

    I would have thought that what it's principally done is to discredit constitutional nationalism and Redmond in particular. In general, while the thread is interesting, I think Gonzo's analysis of how Irish nationalism will react to having the imminent prospect of Home Rule snatched away from it...

  17. TLIAW: To Hell With Hatton

    He was brought up and ordained as a Baptist, but was originally essentially a freelance preacher until he was able to take advantage of a split in a Presbyterian congregation in rural Down (Trotskyites are not the only ones into factional splits) and turned it into the "Free Presbyterian Church...

  18. Successful IRA and other alternative Northern Irelands

    Well, it avoids it apart from the Patrick, Milchú and Niall of the Nine Hostages narrative.

  19. Successful IRA and other alternative Northern Irelands

    While everyone in Northern Ireland, and the island as a whole, has a mixture of ancestries and there have been religious conversions on all sides, the bulk of the Presbyterian presence in Ulster dates from Scottish settlement (the Hamilton/Montgomery settlement in the Ards and subsequent...

  20. Communist Ireland?

    Except that the "Stickies" only really got an "in" within the republican movement in the mid 60s after the failure of the Border Campaign. To be more exact, it was due to influence from the likes of Roy Johnston that Cathal Goulding et al moved towards Marxist ideas. The full mutation towards...
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