Derek Pullem said:
If India gets its own MPs then presumably Canada and the ANZACs will too. An Imperial parliament will be interesting - as will the "Irish" question.
Presumably Ireland will still be part of the Empire if it is a more liberal entity with no WW1 to foster the Easter Rising etc?
Mind you - if there is an Irish Independence movement which does gain its own state I wonder what the other colonies will do with the same status in Parliament.
Ahh... Speculation about "What could have been" in Irish history, it has so many posibilities, complications and is always interesting.
Realistically, without WWI, I can tell you, straight away what comes to mind is the Third Home Rule Bill (Act), (Irish) Home Rule Act 1914, or The Government of Ireland Act 1914. It was postponed due to WWI, so, could it have been possible? Ireland would have been part of Britain, but with a domestic government (Interesting; In studying Parnell, he advocated total seperation many times, but he wrote letters to Cecil Rhodes, assuring that total seperation would never occur, was this the mind of a clever political tactition, trying to gain support, was he a liar, or was it all for personal gain? So much speculation, that alternate Irish history is very interesting, yet not easy to do! lol)
At that, the Physical Force Unionist orginisations would have opposed it, the army in Ireland at the time purposly disobeyed orders and allowed arms to reach Unionists, publically stated they would disobey the Imperial Government, and set up their own parliament in Belfast.
I can go on and on, the above barely touched it, as you can see.
But yes, interesting AAR, I shall be sticking to this one.
(Yes, ye Americans should spell properly.
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