Prince Joachim von Hohenzollern, favoured by several of the Rising’s leaders to become King of Ireland

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  1. Probably a step further into the deranged from Arthur Griffith’s normalish “dual monarchy” concept – Pearse, Plunkett, and MacDonagh apparently gave a good thought to importing the (protestant) son of Germany’s absolutist Kaiser Wilhelm II to reign in Ireland.

    There’s no way this chap would avoid interfering in politics when he’s a fucking Prussian – would probably have been killed off at some stage.

    Although you can just imagine the likes of Pearse and Yeats teaching him a few words of stammered poetry as gaeilge and shiteing themselves with glee

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