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It is striking how similar themes of managing internal unionist tensions and relations with London and Dublin endure a century after the Boundary Commission
Betrayal is unionism’s greatest fear, explains Alex Kane
British prime minister David Lloyd George admitted in a private letter to an Irish politician in 1919, before the War of Independence had escalated to include attacks on British troops, that he was pessimistic of any peaceful negotiated settlement to “the Irish question” because of intransigence over the status of Ulster.
November 20 1923 THOUGH “nothing will be done in the matter of the Ulster boundary until after the election”, we are assured that “at the same time considerable anxiety is felt amongst politicians who are friends of the Six Counties over the question”.
In the latest in his series about eminent Camden Victorians, Neil Titley turns his attention to the incorruptible Sir George Lewis