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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| 16 ] A United Ireland. OR Irish disaffection the remedy is not repres- F sion, but’ conciliation. When the Sinn Fein rising was suppressed England missed an opportunity. If, following the precedent of the Boer rebellion, mercy had tempered justice, disaffection would gradually have disappeared. In an article in the Fortnightly Review, “ A Plea for Mercy,” written just after the rising, I strongly deprecated a policy of vengeance. But the Government failed to appreciate the lesson that history has persistently taught: in Ireland relentless severity begets, not fear. but resentment. Martial law extinguished recruiting in Ireland. To the disaffected Irishman the war is England’s war, and while England ill-treats Ireland, he won’t help her to win. It is strange to hear well-meaning English- men complain with mingled wonder and indignation that Ireland is disloyal to England. If Englishmen, on the advice of Sir Horace Plunkett, will read Anglo-Irish history, they will no longer expect the impossible ; they will rather be surprised at Ireland’s readiness to forgive and forget. Even now Ireland offers loyalty in return for liberty, but, grown distrustful from frequent betrayal, she refuses to pay the price before the goods are delivered. England is ready to close the contract. An Ulster minority blocks the way. Mr. Lloyd George’s proposed settlement of the Irish question by the exclusion of six counties in Ulster is dead, never to be revived. Both parties accepted it, but neither party wanted it. The Unionists hoped the Nationalists would reject it, the Nationalists that the Unionists would amend it.

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