Ulster's opportunity

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Identifikator:: 1878634100

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-276030

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Ulster's opportunity

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Unwin

Year of publication:: 1917

Scope:: 35 S.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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[ 4 |] tained that the safeguards in the Act and the ultimate authority of the Imperial Parliament afforded Ulster absolute security. Hardly less deplorable was his assumption that the Unionists of Ulster form no part of the Irish nation ; no one would resent the suggestion more indignantly than Sir Edward Carson, who has over and over again claimed the name of Irishmen for himself and his followers. Lord Charles Beresford as a strenuous Unionist, has been in the thick of the fight against Home Rule. But even Lord Charles has declared in a letter to the Zimes that “all Irishmen are proud of being Irishmen, all are proud of the land of their birth; no one really wishes to see Ireland divided.” It must never be forgotten that if there is a division in Ireland to-day it is a division of British manufacture. The Orange faction was cherished and encouraged as “ England’s garrison in Ireland.” In Grattan’s day all Irishmen, North, South, East and West were united in the struggle for Irish self-government, and of all the Home Rulers of that day the men of Ulster were the most vehe- ment. When the Premier now regrets that the opposition of a majority in four counties of Ulster blocks the way of Home Rule, he must not forget that such opposition was stimulated, and to a large extent created by his colleagues, Mr. Bonar Law and Sir Edward Carson, and will inevitably cool down when that stimulus is withdrawn. The instant appeal of the Irish Party from the zon possums of the Premier to the over seas dominions, and to the American Republic seems to have suddenly startled the English people and the Govern- ment into a realisation of their position before the tribunal of the liberty-loving nations. For their treatment of Ireland in the past and at the present they are absolutely without defence. The most

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