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WITH the reunification of our island being debated from various perspectives, including the indifferent, the revisionist and the plainly hostile, I would like to submit my sentiments and observations on the subject.

October 10 1923 The Six Counties are tied to Great Britain; financially, they are helplessly in the hands of the British Government – and the familiar remark that monetary affairs in the Twenty-Six Counties are also in a deplorable mess does not affect the position here… When the government of the Free State tackle their unemployment problem, they must depend on their own resources, and they have untrammelled and unlimited powers in the direction of utilising these resources to the best advantage – or to the worst.

Country Living with Francis Farragher THERE’S a whole generation of people who have now grown up in a largely peaceful Ireland, but for those of us of a certain vintage, the mention of place names like Greysteele or Warrenpoint immediately brings back memories of shocking atrocities. For those of who were around for the 1970s […]

Ireland is one of the most important issues facing the British labour movement. For a quarter of a century the Six Counties of north-east Ulster have been in a state of latent, and sometimes open, civil war. In all this time, the left in Britain has been able to do nothing to help our working-class brothers and sisters, the majority of the people in both the Catholic and the Protestant communities, find a way out of the bloody cul-de-sac into which sectarianism, the conflict of national identities and an irrational partition have forced them.

Sinn Féin is hailing an historic turning point, but, despite that, Irish reunification is still a long way off. Anne McShane and Kevin Bean look at the results