GERRY ADAMS: Impossible to hold back a new Ireland
THE narrow vote in the Dáil 100 years ago last week in favour of the Treaty imposed the partitionist institutions demanded by the British under threat of “war – and war within three days”. The vote led directly to the calamitous Civil War in the South, years of violence in the North and a fractured society. Nationalists in the North were abandoned by the Southern political establishment. The recent comments by Joe Brolly and Bernadette McAliskey which have given expression to this have been sharply criticised by apologists for that establishment. The evidence of a century of lived exp...
Source: belfastmedia.com