#garrett fitzgerald

[brianjohnspencer]

This is the opportunity for ulster to show that it places Empire above everything. If the little protestant community in the south, isolated in a turbulent sea of Sinn Feinism and Popery can trust their lives and their property to the majority there, surely the powerful community of the North might take that risk for the sake of the Empire in danger.

Lloyd George, January 12 1918 (Via Garrett Fitzgerald, ‘Ireland in the World - Further Reflections’ (p.49)
(Here: http://brianjohnspencer.tumblr.com/post/138282774573/my-father-always-believed-that-it-was-the-threat))

[brianjohnspencer]

In December 1918, through the working of the first-past-the-post electoral system, Sinn Fein won 70% of the Irish seats with only 47% of the vote cast... The Irish party, despite securing 23% of the popular vote, won only 5 seats in Ulster and just one in the rest of the country.

Garrett Fitzgerald, ‘Ireland in the World - Further Reflections’ (p.51) (Here: http://brianjohnspencer.tumblr.com/post/138282774573/my-father-always-believed-that-it-was-the-threat)

[brianjohnspencer]

[Before 1922] in Ireland a strong civic sense did exist - but mainly amongst Protestants and especially Anglicans

Garrett Fitzgerald (here: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Irish_people)