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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[ 21 ] the Irish Church Bill was passing through Parliament, the Orangemen then declared themselves prepared “to kick the Queen’s crown into the Boyne,” and “to line the last ditch” in defiance of the Imperial Par- liament. The Bill passed and nothing happened. The recent Orange threats of rebellion against the Home Rule Act were not taken seriously in England or Ireland. “Ulsteria,” as it was wittily nick-named by Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, was believed to be a noisy disease but not dangerous, Anyhow, all danger (if there ever was any) of an Ulster loyalist rebellion has been now happily dispersed. But there was a sudden change in public opinion when the commanding officers in the Curragh refused to take part in the suppression of an Ulster rebellion, “Conditional ” mutiny in the Army was rightly regarded as a far more formidable danger to the Empire than conditional rebellion in Ulster, It was then for the first time that the suggestion of the exclusion of Ulster or of some portion of Ulster which was “legitimate tactics” on the part of the Irish Unionists was accepted as practical politics by the Government. The King sought a compromise on those lines in the famous Buckingham Palace Confer- ence and failed. That failure can be easily under- stood. Neither side wanted the exclusion. Each side was afraid it would be accepted by the other : complete Home Rule, or no Home Rule, was then, and always has been, the issue between them. The War intervened, and after a regrettable delay the Home Rule Bill was passed into law. While Nationalists were irritated at the long delay, Unionists were furious at the enactment of Home Rule. It will be remembered that Mr. Bonar Law denounced it as a treacherous betrayal, and declared that a pledge was to Mr. Asquith what a treaty was to the Germans, “a scrap of paper,” to be torn up at pleasure. There can be little doubt that Mr. Bonar Law,

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