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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[ 22 ] who afterwards proved himself an efficient and loyal colleague of Mr. Asquith, has long ago realised, not merely the wisdom, but the absolute necessity of the course pursued by the late Premier. To have further postponed the enactment of Home Rule would have meant utter disaster in Ireland, where it would be regarded as a deliberate betrayal. It would have infuriated in the highest degree Irish opinion alike in Ireland and in America and in the Colonies, and it would have been a death-blow to Irish recruiting. Instead of the spasmodic rising of a few thousand Sinn Feiners there would have probably been a real Irish rebellion, supported by the great body of the Irish people. That tremendous danger was averted by Mr. Asquith’s statesmanship. The Irish Nation- alists vied with the Unionists in devotion to the Empire. Lord Kitchener described Ireland’s response as “ magnificent.” Irish soldiers, crying “God save Ireland” as they charged, proved themselves the bravest of the brave in Flanders, Gallipoli, and Serbia. Even Lord Selborne has a word of praise for “the loyal and patriotic action of Mr, Redmond during the two years stress of War.” So much has the enactment of ‘Home Rule already accomplished. Mr. Birrell was right in his emphatic declaration in the House of Commons that the Sinn Fein rising was not an Irish rebellion. Three or four thousand men and boys at the most were concerned in the rising. It has been said that the sympathy with the Sinn Feiners has largely increased since the suppression of the insurrection and the wholesale execution and imprisonment of the insurgents, and that there is far more disaffection now in Ireland than at the time of the rising. I think that is so. But the extreme Unionists, who seek to draw from that fact an argument against the concession of Home Rule, are absolutely illogical. It was the delay in the con-

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