Northern Ireland: Its Past and Its Future The Past

L.B. Namier , Avenues of History (London, Hamish Hamilton, 1952), p. 44.

House of Commons, Debates, 1912, Vol. XXXIX, col 771.

Government of Ireland Act, 1914, 4 and 5, Geo. V, ch. 90.

Suspensory Act, 1914, 4 and 5, Geo. V, ch. 88.

Redmond Papers, National Library, Dublin.

The 1925 Agreement probably represented the nearest approach to this.

Government of Ireland Act, 1914, 10 and 11, Geo. V, ch. 87.

House of Commons, Debates, Vol. 127, col. 981.

Thomas, Jones , Whitehall Diary, Vol. III, Ireland 1918-1925, edited by Keith Middlemas (London, Oxford University Press, 1971), p. 82.

Ibid., p. 88.

Ibid., pp. 129-30.

The author read a paper to the Tenth Irish Conference of Historians at University College, Cork, in May 1971, entitled 'The Government of Ireland Act 1920: Its Origins and Purposes. The Working of the Official Mind', which analysed these developments in longer perspective and greater detail.

CAB 27/68.

CAB 23/28.

CAB 23/18, 10 December 1919. The diverging views of Ulster and English Unionists, which were of very considerable significance at this juncture, are analysed in depth by D.G. Boyce in 'British Conservative Opinion, The Ulster Question and the Partition of Ireland, 1912-1921', Irish Historical Studies (Vol. XVII, No. 65, March 1970), pp. 89-112.

House of Commons, Debates, Vol. 127, col. 992.

House of Commons, Debates, Vol. 127, col. 1202.

Jones, op. cit., Vol. III, pp. 129-31.

House of Commons, Debates, Vol. 127, col. 1112-3.

Jones, op. cit., Vol. III, pp. 75-9.