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  1. Alfred the great Turns Danelaw into Crownland

    Alfred's nobles would not accept so much power being taken by the king at that time. The Danelaw was not a centralised entity, but a series of Jarls, all with absolute power in their own lands. The attitudes at the time were not around the 'nation' and the King. The king was seen as a more...

  2. AHC: Anglo-Irish Majority In Ireland

    What people seem to overlook is that the Irish _DID_ identify as British up until the aftermath of the '16 rising. During and immediately after the rising, the Dublin populace hated the rebels, calling them traitors and attacking them if they were caught alone. It was the treatment of the...

  3. Operation Unicorn WI

    I've been reading the Operation Unicorn WI recently (posted here), and I think it's an awesome timeline. I don't know where the author's going with it, but so far it looks like the CP have the upper hand in WW1. So, a question occurred to me. What's the consequences for a newly independant...

  4. Nazi Germany invades Ireland 1941

    I was reading Operation Unicorn, about a German invasion of Ireland during WW1, and started thinking, what about during WW2. The Midlands of Ireland is perfect country for a Battle of France type attack. What effects would there be if in 1941 Nazi Germany, abandoning SeaLion changes focus to...

  5. Al-Eyir - A Islamic Ireland?

    How about the Invasion from Wessex actually lands and starts looting, pillaging, raping, whatever. But under the impression that ALL the Irish are heathens, they destroy christian villages and churches as well as the Muslims. They trap the High King and his army, who has mobilised to defend...

  6. WI: Irish Rebellion 1780s?

    Under Poyning's Law (1492), the Irish Parliament could not pass any laws without approval by the King and the British Parliament. This law was only repealed under the 1782 constitution.See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poyning%27s_Law. The reason the Irish relied almost exclusively on the...

  7. Brian Boru survives Clontarf

    Industrial revolution in Ireland One problem. Ireland has no significant deposits of coal or steel. As far as I know, coal at least was an essential ingredient of the IR.

  8. No Irish Famine

    Ireland, during the famine was a net exporter of food (mainly corn, beef and pork). The reason that the potatoe was the staple diet in Ireland was that those cash crops were grown for the landlord and the tenants had to exist on other crops. The potato was the easiest as it yields the most...

  9. The Guns of the Tawantinsuya

    TTL World War 1 Just a note, if you're having a WW1, it's worth noting that trench warfare has already been tried in the TTL Franco-Prussian war which included most of the participants of a future Great war, so at least some will have thought about ways to avoid this particular bloodbath...

  10. Brian Boru survives the battle of Clontarf

    I posted about something similar last year, but no-one replied. Brian was in a fairly strong position at this time in that he had captured the viking flets in Limerick and Wexford intact previously. Presumably, he also captured the fleet at dublin in the battle of Clontarf, but maybe it got...

  11. 7/19/69: First Contact

    What about the psychological impact? Curently humanity as a whole views themselves as the top dog, In effect the ultimate evolutionary target. What effect would it have on our thinking to have confirmation that there are other sentient races out there? What about spiritual effects? How does...

  12. AH Challenge: Irish Isles

    From what I gather, the Irish were a bit of a terror to the pre-saxon britons. They raided at will the briton kingdomws along the west. This implies the Irish were a power at the time. Possibly have the Irish as a more centralised kingdom at the time and it projects power more efficiently...

  13. Battle of Britain result reversed

    Psychology The British resolve was not tested yet in this scenario. As far as I can see, the British didn't get fully behind the war until the London Blitz hardened their resolve. Who's to know what would happen if the RAF Fighter Command gets defeated, but the blitz never happens (as...

  14. Battle of Britain result reversed

    Pose the question, log out and return the next day. 2 frekin pages of replies! I must have hit a nerve. Hitler, as far as I remember, was actually fairly reasonable towards the West, but rabid about the East (Slavs, Jews, etc), so I don't think it's beyond the realm of the possible that he...

  15. Battle of Britain result reversed

    I've been reading Fighter Boys by Patrick Bishop (great book on the BoB). Anyway, from this and several sources, I get the impression that the RAF where on the downhill slope until the Luftwaffe switched from targetting the RAF to targetting the civilian population. In OTL, the Luftwaffe were...

  16. Post-war settlement after an ultra-nasty WWII

    To be honest, nuclear weapons are more political weapons than tactical. The first drops would probably have been on major cities - Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, etc. Then the Allies would contact the Germans and demand complete surrender or face getting nuked again. In all fairness, you'd probably...

  17. How long for a city to crumble naturally ??

    RE: Quite Interesting Have you read Tom Clancy's 'Rainbow Six'? Some mad 'tree-huggers' try to let modify the ebola virus to make it more robust, with a longer incubaion period. They planned to release the virus at the olympics closing ceremony. Infecting millions who then go home and...

  18. A Nail Challenge

    How about Hastings 1066? William's horse is shoed wrong or throws a shoe, making the horse go lame, causing William to die (horse slower, so a Saxon Fyrd member guts him or something). Thus England stays in the Northern (Sacandinavian) cultural sphere rather than the Norman continental...
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