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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[ 32 1] “ The word Unionist,” it writes, “ has lost its familiar meaning, but it will take a new and honourable lease of life if the Unionist Party now decides to make itself the champion of a United Ireland.” Surely Sir Edward Carson, who assured a meeting of seven hundred Unionist delegates from Leinster, Munster, and Connaught, “you need fear no action of Ulster which would be in the nature of a desertion of any of the southern provinces,” could not now refuse to listen to such an appeal. No reasonable concession would be refused which would induee the six counties to exercise an option they have secured in favour of the policy of a united rather than a dis- membered Ireland. Sir Edward Carson has declared that it is not the legislation but the administration of an Irish Parlia- ment he fears. His fear of maladministration would be at least diminished if he were assured of a Coali- tion Cabinet. There is still another administration safeguard which I have already suggested elsewhere, and which might be worth a trial. We have district and county councils in Ireland. There seems to me to be no valid objection, if Ulster so desires, to the creation of provincial councils as well. To an Ulster Council the local administration of the province might be safely entrusted. There is special encouragement in one memorable declaration of Sir Edward Carson. “If Home Rule is tried for part of Ireland I, as an Irishman, hope and pray that it may so work that Ulster of her own motion may come in” Can he not, as an Irishman, go one step further and invite Ulster with her wealth and intelligence to lend a hand in the successful working of Home Rule ? In the Life and Letters of Sir John Henntker Heaton, recently published by his daughter, an interesting little incident is recorded — « Heaton introduced his old friend and Irish rebel and Colonial statesman, Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, to

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