Verse:Irta/Ireland

In Irta, Ireland grew into a major European power by the 9th century, controlling all of the British Isles, and at its greatest extent stretching as far as the Pyrenees, our Netherlands, and just to the west of our Paris. The Irish empire was bordered by an Old French-speaking region to the southeast, which was in turn bordered by Hivantish tribal lands in Eastern Europe and Scandinavia.

Some Irish territory remained on Continental Europe into the 17th century. Irish heavily influenced Crackfic Trician French, turning it into Hyperfrench with a quasi-Slavic phonology, and influenced Hivantish as well.

Early Middle Ages

This part's the most handwavy

The early medieval ard-rí was a figurehead over autonomous regional sub-kings. The ard-rí role became more centralized (unlike in our timeline) in response to a need for cooperation and centralization among the Irish-speaking tribes in response to external forces? However, Gaels still retained a clan-based system, like our Joseon; we could model some features of the Irish empire after Joseon

The bardic schools have one additional level which was required to become the Ardrí's poet, called the ardfhilidhe (ardfhilí)?

The ardrí was still elected by tanistry

Some religious text translations should use "Ardrí" rather than "Rí" for God

Where should the capital be?

Catholicism was the state religion but Jews were tolerated to an extent

Lebor Gabála Bretaine

The Brythonic assimilate to the Gaelic speakers, except those who went to the mainland who became Galoyseg speakers; some Irta Irish surnames should be Brythonic

Late Middle Ages

"What if Joseon was Irish-speaking and Catholic"

Civil service exam system

Much like the Joseon one; applicants were tested on the knowledge of Irish poetic and prose forms, knowledge of Latin and Catholic theology and history, and the relevant technical subjects for those entering technical positions (such as translating French, Hivantish, and Azalic). Women, lower classes and non-Catholics were excluded. One those whose last 3 generations either passed the civil service exam or served in civil service could take the exam.

Expulsion of Jews from Continental Ireland (12th-13th c.)

Middle Irish-speaking Tsarfati Jews migrated to Central and Eastern Europe, and their language became Ăn Yidiș

Post-Remonition

During the 16th and the 17th centuries, the two Remonitions occurred and Ireland lost all of its mainland territory (to the Remonitionists and the Hivantish), in addition to Britain, in the ensuing religious wars by the 17th century. Irish culture remained in the mainly Catholic Corsica, where a heavily Irish-influenced descendant of Arabic is still spoken today.

Post-Remonition intellectual history in Irta Catholic Europe (Ireland, France, Italy) could be like

• 17th-18th c: after the 17th century Catholic vs. Remonitionist wars of religion, intellectuals are just kinda sick of fighting for religion and begin to question its value. The Enlightenment begins in the traditionally Catholic countries contemporaneously with Romanticism in the Remonitionist countries.
• 19th c: after that they could have a Romanticism influenced by Remonitionist cultures
• 20th-21th c: more influence from RMists from Irta