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Read online at https://workersliberty.org/node/36953 Brexit and the Six Counties: for a federal united Ireland Submitted by martin on 16 March, 2021 - 4:49 Author: Micheál MacEoin This year marks the unhappy centenary of the foundation of the state of Northern Ireland, which was born amid sectarian violence in 1921. The Brexit debacle and, most recently, the hastily withdrawn threat from the European Commission t...

Ireland’s border is a hot Brexit topic - here’s a history of the partition The division of the island is on the front burner again as many nationalists and republicans demand a border poll as allowed in the Good Friday Agreement. Gerry O’Shea Mar 02, 2021 How Ireland's partition came to be and why it's a hot topic in recent times. Getty Images Facebook

25th February 2021 Uachtarán, I am most grateful to you for the invitation to speak today, and I am honoured to be part of this event. Can I begin, perhaps, with the theme of empire, since you have placed this at the heart of your concerns for our discussion – and since Professor John Horne has highlighted the issue in his eloquent introduction. Let me then move to consider partition, particularly in relation to unionism, since this has a relevance and challenge in terms of the President’s emphasis on ethical commemoration. Let me also attempt to follow John, if I can, in his European an...

Partition 100 Years On: James Craig – an ordinary man with an extraordinary career As part of his series of articles on the Partition of Ireland, historian Cormac Moore outlines how, despite his undoubted strengths, Sir James Craig guaranteed a sustained reluctance by Catholics to recognise the legitimacy of the state he was instrumental in founding As a Down-born unionist, Sir James Craig, the first prime minister of Northern Ireland, had none of the doubts surrounding partition that the Dublin-born Carson had. Picture from The Bystander Cormac Moore ...

The Conservatives have always been happy to sell their allies down the river Sir Edward Carson’s statue in the grounds of Stormont in Belfast. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Sir Edward Carson’s statue in the grounds of Stormont in Belfast. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Sat 6 Feb 2021 14.00 EST Last modified on Sun 7 Feb 2021 15.38 EST In 1921, Sir Edward Carson, leader of the Irish unionists, uttered words anyone tempted to fall for the charms of English Tories should learn by heart. “What a fool I was. I was only a puppet, and so was Ulster, and so was Ireland, in the political game that wa...