Book review: Danny Morrison looks at the story of Irish partition "How (author, Ivan) Gibbons can claim that although partition was messy and a second-best solution, it was pragmatic and avoided mass civil strife baffles me - given the thousands who died overall" King George arriving to open the new parliament of Northern Ireland in Belfast, 1921. Sun, 02 May, 2021 - 14:00 Danny Morrison Ivan Gibbons Haus Publishing, H/B £12.99 Its one-hundredth birthday falls on May 3, yet no unionist or revisionist historian has ever written a book titled, The Success of Partition. Doubts over its fut...