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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[ 24 ] with the rest of Ireland in giving Home Rule a fair trial. It was doubtless with this hope that he per- suaded his followers to accept it. His task was a hard one. The acceptance, nominally at least, in- volved the scrapping of the solemn covenant which pledged the Unionists of Ireland to stand or fall together ; it involved the abandonment to their fate of the 400,000 Unionists (be the same more or less) of Leinster, Munster, and Connaught. Most humili- ating of all, it involved the abandonment of their Ulster Unionist brethren in the Ulster counties which it proposed to bring under the immediate jurisdiction of the Irish Parliament. Still, even the irreconcilable Unionists at first raised no objection to the scheme in confident expectation that on the Nationalists would fall the responsibility of wrecking it. The logical consequence, a Nationalist refusal, was clear. It was “unthinkable” that the Ulster Union- ists should be coerced to the acceptance of Home Rule. The Nationalists would accept no Home Rule from which the Ulster Unionists were excluded. Therefore Home Rule was impossible. Q.E.D. When Sir Edward Carson’s followers, on the advice of their leader, accepted the Lloyd George pro- posals, the next move was ‘with Mr. Redmond. His task was even harder than Sir Edward Carson’s. Like Sir Edward Carson, even more emphatically than Sir Edward, he had repudiated the policy of exclusion. It was a denial of the ideal for which the long battle had been doggedly fought. “Ireland a nation! Ireland united and free” It was an osten- sible surrender of the policy of Parnell, whose eloquent proclamation of a United Ireland Mr. Redmond quoted with approval in the House of Commons. “We cannot give up a single Irishman. We want the energy and patriotism, the talents and the work of every Irishman to ensure that this great experi- ment shall be successful.”

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