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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[ 17] Nationalists support Home Rule, Unionists denounce it, but all Irishmen unite in opposing the dismem- berment of Ireland. Once convince the Ulster Unionists that Home Rule is inevitable, and they will accept the inclusion of Ulster as the lesser of two evils. It is not hard to show that the policy of exclusion was never supported on its merits by any section of Irishmen. The real issue between Irish Nationalists and Unionists was, Home Rule or no Home Rule for a united Ireland. For more than a century the battle was fought on this issue by O’Connell, Butt, Parnell, McCarthy, and Redmond. Home Rule was denounced by the Unionists as “treason,” “rebellion,” and “dismemberment of the Empire” It was ap- plauded by the Nationalists as the liberation and regeneration of Ireland ; but through all those years there was never a hint from any party that the solu- tion of the question could be found in the dismem- berment of Ireland. In the strenuous second reading debate in 1886, . when Mr. Gladstone first raised the question, Home Rule for all Ireland was the only issue before Parlia- ment. In 1893 I was present every day in the House when Home Rule was discussed, week after week, month after month, on second reading, com- mittee, and report, and I never heard from any quarter the faintest suggestion that any part of Ire- land should be excluded from the jurisdiction of the Irish Parliament. During the fierce agitation in Ulster in the autumn of 1912 there was never a hint of exclusion. The famous Covenant, so enthusiastically adopted, so universally signed by the Unionists of Ulster, was in effect a repudiation of the policy of exclusion. It is important for the right understanding of the present Irish situation to recall the pledge of mutual support contained in the Covenant :—

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