{"id":628,"date":"2025-11-28T06:19:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T06:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andrewjharvey.com\/?page_id=628"},"modified":"2025-11-28T06:23:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T06:23:01","slug":"the-emerald-islandsnadir-2-in-the-clemhorn-trilogy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/andrewjharvey.com\/?page_id=628","title":{"rendered":"Alternate History Anthology: The Emerald Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px; margin: 5px 5px 5px 5px;\">\n<h1><\/h1>\n<table style=\"border-color: #ffffff; border-style: solid; background-color: #ffffff;\" width=\"98%\" cellspacing=\"2\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td style=\"border-color: #ffffff #cccc99 #ffffff #ffffff; border-style: solid;\" width=\"30%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-533\" src=\"https:\/\/andrewjharvey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/TheEmeraldIsles.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"313\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andrewjharvey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/TheEmeraldIsles.jpg 313w, https:\/\/andrewjharvey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/TheEmeraldIsles-188x300.jpg 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 313px) 100vw, 313px\" \/><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-245\" \/><\/p>\n<a class=\"maxbutton-1 maxbutton maxbutton-clemhorn-nightfall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/books2read.com\/u\/bzzzPE\"><span class='mb-text'>Order from Your Favourite Store<\/span><\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"center\"><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"border-color: #ffffff #ffffff #ffffff #ffffff; border-style: solid;\">\n<h1><i>The Emerald Islands<\/i><\/h1>\n<p class=\"center\">Ireland is a country that is, in many ways, still defined by the British occupation and the nature of its partition and independence and so there is much room to explore how it could have evolved differently in different circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>What would home rule have looked like in practice? What struggles would an Ireland that won independence in the late 18th century have faced? How would Ireland have positioned itself if the Nazis had won the Second World War?<\/p>\n<p>In this collection, thirteen talented writers will show you glimpses of the Irelands that never existed.<\/p>\n<p>The book contains Matthew Kresal&#8217;s\u00a0<em>The Dreamer Exfiltration<\/em> which won the international 2021 Sidewise Awards for Alternate History, and my own\u00a0<em>The Dragon and the Lady of Uliad<\/em> which was runner up.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><i>The Emerald Islands<br \/>\nPublished by SeaLion Press<\/i><\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"a-text-bold\">Stories<\/span><br \/>\nAmong the Brothers by Jared Kavanagh<br \/>\n\u201cOne of this, one of that?\u201d by Paul Hynes<br \/>\nThe Death of Old Ireland by Dara Boland<br \/>\n<strong><em>The Dragon and the Lady of Uliad<\/em> by Andrew J Harvey<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Dreamer Exfiltration by Matthew Kresal<br \/>\nThe Last High King of Ireland by Gary Oswald<br \/>\nOperation Spectre by Charles E.P Murphy<br \/>\nThe Phony Raven by J.A Belanger<br \/>\nIrelande du Nord, Douze Points by Richard Hunter<br \/>\nThe Harp and the Lion by Lilith C.J. Roberts<br \/>\nSun Spotted in Ireland by Charlie Allison<br \/>\nTales from the Brothers\u2019 War by Blaise Burtulato<br \/>\nGet Carson by Ian Bertram<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td style=\"border-color: #ffffff; border-style: solid;\" colspan=\"2\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Emerald Islands Ireland is a country that is, in many ways, still defined by the British occupation and the nature of its partition and independence and so there is much room to explore how it could have evolved differently in different circumstances. What would home rule have looked like in practice? What struggles &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/andrewjharvey.com\/?page_id=628\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alternate History Anthology: The Emerald Islands<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-628","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewjharvey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewjharvey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewjharvey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewjharvey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewjharvey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/andrewjharvey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":632,"href":"https:\/\/andrewjharvey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/628\/revisions\/632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewjharvey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}