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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[ 25 ] Mr. Redmond was attacked in front and flank. The extreme Nationalists protested against the acceptance of a mutilated Ireland. The Unionists taunted the Nationalist leader with his repudiated pledges. The Catholic Hierarchy ranged themselves strongly in favour of rejection. By many Irish Nationalists it was believed that Mr. Redmond had set himself an impossible task ; it was feared that even with the cordial support of his trusted colleagues, Mr. Dillon, and Mr. Devlin, he would fail to carry the unpalatable proposals. Amongst the “ Die Hard ” Unionists a corresponding hope’ was felt. When Mr. Lloyd George's scheme for the immediate establishment of Home Rule was made public there was not a whisper of dissent from Lord Lansdowne or Lord Selborne. When the pro- posals were accepted by the Ulster Unionists the extremists still maintained an approving silence awaiting the inevitable rejection by the Nationalists. The Morning Post was then the solitary voice shriek- ing in the wilderness, “faithful alone amid the faith- less found ” to the exploded policy of coercion. It was only when the impossible happened, when the Nationalists accepted the proposals, that the irreconcilables’ protest began. Their tacit acceptance was pure bluff. When Mr. Redmond “saw them,” Lord Lansdowne kicked down the card table. There was no real inconsistency in the action of sither Mr. Redmond or Sir Edward Carson when, in apparent defiance of their pledges, they accepted the policy of exclusion and commended it to their followers, Both had good ground for believing it to be the easiest way of securing a united Ireland, Mr. Redmond, at least, made no secret of his policy. The representative Conference held in Belfast of the Nationalists of the counties proposed to be excluded, Antrim, Down, Derry, Armagh, Tyrone, and Fer- managh, and the cities of Derry and Belfast, at his

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