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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[ 341] four-fifths of Ireland, by accepting it themselves they can solve the Irish difficulty and demonstrate their loyalty to the Empire in its hour of trial. [t has to be fully realised that the veto of a Unionist majority in four Ulster counties is now the sole obstacle to the settlement of the Irish question—so earnestly desired by Great Britain and Ireland, by the British Allies and the Dominions beyond the seas—a settlement that would help the winning of the War and justify before the world England’s pro- fessed enthusiasm for the liberation of Small Nations. An indefinite submission to such a veto is unthink- able. The Outlander minority in South Africa were allowed no veto on the concession of Self-Government to the Boers; no pro-German faction will be allowed to obstruct the liberation of Poland, The utter absurdity of the claim of the Ulster extremists is unconsciously revealed in a recent editorial in the Irish Times :— “It is not only the official Nationalists, driven, perhaps, to despair by the increasing failure of their prestige, who clamour for the coercion of Ulster. Some independent men who really desire a settlement as much for Ireland’s sake as for their own, have been tempted, by the new and imposing influences which the Government has invoked, to make a similar appeal to compulsion. They suggest that a generous scheme of Home Rule for the whole of Ireland would isolate a handful of Northern fanatics, whose opinions the Government could afford to disregard. The people who talk thus have little knowledge of Unionist Ulster or of the essential needs of a real Irish settlement. There can be no isolation of any section of Unionists in Ulster. A threat of violence to the smallest minority of them would create instantly a fierce and solid unity of resistance to the best scheme that the wit of British statesmanship could devise.” Here is an undisguised claim that “a handful of Northern fanatics” are entitled to a perpetual veto

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