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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[ 12 ] But the Sinn Feiners are not all republicans. Many of them who denounce the Home Rule Act—secured by the arduous and protracted struggle of the Irish Party as an effective solution of the Irish question— profess to believe that it is only in Repeal of the Union and the restoration of “Grattan’s Parliament” that the true remedy is to be found. Remembering how long the Irish question has been before the public, how exhaustively it has been discussed and dissected, it strikes one as strange that even at the present hour the vital distinction between Home Rule and Repeal of the Union should be so little understood. There are intelligent Englishmen who believe that Home Rule would be the sure forerunner of separation; there are intelligent Irishmen who believe that the restoration of Grattan’s Parliament would be a greater boon to Ireland than Home Rule. A very little accurate knowledge of the subject demonstrates the absurdity of either view. The acceptance of Home Rule is an absolute bar to separation; the restoration of Grattan’s Parliament as it existed before the Union is both undesirable and impossible, From the first it was manifest that the Union forced on the Nation by corruption, fraud, and violence meant ruin for Ireland. Naturally, the “Repeal of the Union” was the form in which the remedy first pre- sented itself to the Irish people. Within ten years O’Connell inaugurated his Repeal agitation, never wavering from the declaration in his speech against the Union that, as a Catholic, he “would willingly purchase that Repeal by the imposition of the Penal Code in all its unmitigated ferocity.” But the agita- tion was foredoomed to failure. In Repeal of the Union ultimate separation was inevitably involved, and separation can never be wrung from England except by armed force. When Butts great Home Rule Conference was held in the Rotunda, in Novem-

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