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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[ 20 ] But not on material grounds alone or mainly rests the appeal to the six counties to give Home Rule, in the words of Lord Selborne, a fair trial before they decide upon exclusion. As Lord McDonnell points out, the exclusion of six counties of Ireland, apart from the strenuous opposition of the overwhelming majority in Leinster, Munster, and Connaught would give “a thoroughly unwelcome system of government,” not merely to the Nationalists of the excluded counties, but also to Unionists of the twenty-six included counties, who are naturally anxious that if Home Rule must come it should come for a united Ireland. Ulster Unionists cannot lightly contemplate the desertion of their Unionist brethren of the provinces of Leinster, Munster, and Connaught, and of the in- cluded counties of Ulster, in violation of pledges in the solemn Covenant of mutual support. How bitterly that desertion would be resented may be judged from a protest in the frish Times from the Rev. T. L. F. Stack, of the County of Tyrone. «Of all the people in the world,” he writes, « the Ulster Unionist Council has scrapped the Covenant, and wiped the ground with Ulster’s honour.” If Home Rule would be bad for the excluded counties it must be worse for the Unionists of the included area. The number of Irish Unionists may be roughly estimated as about a million. Of those more than a half reside in the six counties proposed to be excluded. If a million Unionists almost mono- polising, as they claim, the wealth and intelligence of the country could not hold their own in a Home Rule Parliament, to what fate are the Unionists of the six counties abandoning their scattered brethren in the included area? Assuredly it is not a desertion which, remembering their pledge of mutual support, they can contemplate with pride. The six counties have so far successfully resisted

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