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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[ 31] majority of Irish Unionists desire, though they may hesitate for the moment to give public expression to their views. On the kindred question of inclusion or exclusion of Dublin University and Trinity College from the jurisdiction of a Home Rule Parliament, there was afforded a singular illustration of what an able and courageous newspaper can accomplish. Mr. Campbell, Member for Dublin University, moved its exclusion, the amendment was reluctantly accepted by Mr. Redmond, and was adopted by the Committee of the House of Commons. But it was strenuously opposed by the Unionist fresh Times. “The future of the Dublin University |it wrote] is fixed in Ireland. Its essential asset thust be the respect, confi- dence, and goodwill of the whole Irish people. It has always enjoyed the respect, and is beginning to enjoy the confidence and goodwill. The amendment would be fatal to Trinity’s educational interests. It sets up a barrier of distrust between the Protestant and Catholic youth of [reland. It divides the youngest and most generous ele- ments of our democracy into hostile camps.” The protest was effective. Mr. Campbell’s amend- ment was withdrawn, and Dublin University cast its lot in with the rest of Ireland under a Home Rule Parliament. It is about time the /7is/z Times should, with the courage of its convictions, make the same emphatic protest against the exclusion of the six counties from a self-governed Ireland. Now that the clear issue is raised, Home Rule without the six counties or with them, its duty seems plain. It has declared its conviction that the policy of exclusion would be “the least desirable of all possible Irish settlements of the Irish question.” It should endeavour to give effect to that conviction. The concluding paragraph in a recent editorial goes to prove that it appreciates the present position.

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