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The division of Ireland in 1921 was confirmed by a treaty that aimed to resolve the so-called 'Irish Question'. A century on from that pivotal event, Charles Townshend explores five episodes in the process of Ireland's partition
AS far as Sir Jeffrey Donaldson's professed desire for unionist unity goes, yesterday's joint declaration and accompanying video may well turn out to be a high point.
IRISH nationalists were in a strong position by the end of 1910.
Angry unionism is nothing new. It was born in anger in the 1880s – when it recognised the threat posed to it by the Home Rule crisis – and it has remained angry ever since. Angry in 1972, when the Stormont parliament was closed. Angry in 1974, when power-sharing arrived. Angry in 1985, when the Anglo-Irish Agreement was foisted upon it. Angry in 1993, when the Downing Street Declaration stated the British government had no “selfish strategic or economic interest in Northern Ireland”. Angry right now, because the Northern Ireland Protocol, by leaving NI in the EU, has pushed it into th...