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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[ 30] compulsion. It is for them now freely to decide that they will come in until they wish to go out, rather than stay out until they wish to come in. The sacra- fice is not great. Self-interest, loyalty and patriotism dictate an immediate, if provisional, inclusion. If they elect to remain out, Nationalists cannot be blamed for making their position uncomfortable. If they elect to come in, Nationalists have the strongest motives for generous conciliation. Their duty to their brother Unionists ; their duty to their country ; above all, their loyalty to the Empire in the hour of stress and trial, combine to urge that they should throw in their lot with a United Ireland. Sir Horace Plunkett, a life-long Unionist, writes: “No sane Irishman believes that Ulster can be coerced, but all the best Irish thought is confident it can be won.” The sooner the better. If the thing is to be done at all, “’twere well ’twere done quickly.” “Time is,” as the lawyers say, “of the essence of the contract” If the six counties of Ulster consented to inclusion they might reasonably demand a Coalition Ministry as the price of the concession, and experience in England shows that it is in war-time a Coalition Ministry is most successful. Seeing that Mr. Asquith and Mr. Bonar Law, after such bitter conflict, worked harmoniously together, there is surely no reason to despair of hearty co-operation of Unionist and Home Ruler in a Coalition Cabinet in Ireland. Party rancour would be quenched, and kindly feeling evoked by their common interest in the successful progress of the war. The immediate creation of an United Irish Parliament would be an irresistible stimulus to Irish recruiting ; would dissipate whatever lingering hopes Germany may yet entertain of Irish disaffection, and would be cordially welcomed in America and the Colonies. The Irish Unionist Press can do much to promote such a settlement, which I am convinced the vast

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