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Sign up for our free newsletter Sign Up Success! You're on the list. Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again. Processing… I already get the newsletter After *years* of public debate, the D.C. Council advanced amendments to a massive blueprint that guides development and growth for the city. The Comprehensive Plan, or Comp Plan, as it’s called, was last re-written in 2006 and amended in 2011. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration has been working to revamp the city document sin...

From the NS archive: The “fact” of partition 2 July 1921: How to end the guerrilla war in Ireland. By mid 1921 it was clear that an end to the hostilities between the British state and Irish republicans was tangible. As the writer of this editorial put it: “The policy of martial law and ‘reprisals’ is played out. It cannot be maintained.” The prime minister, David Lloyd George, invited the republican leader É amon de Valera to London for a conference to decide how to bring the fighting to an end and map out a future for the island of Ireland. At the time this piece was written...

Road to Partition: how the border was drawn up A very different border could have been chosen, but by the time the Better Government of Ireland act passed on 23 December 1920, the line between what would become Northern Ireland and the rest of the island had been drawn. • 21 Dec 2020 In early 1919 Lloyd George's coalition government was engaged in the realignment of European borders at the Paris Peace Conference but, by the Autumn of that year, attention was focused again on the Irish question. Conscious that the outdated 1914 Home Rule Act was on the Statute Book and would operate automati...