NI Votes Itself Out
Introduction from
Chronology
Northern Ireland votes itself out of Free State by the stipulation that
permitted this in the Treaty. Craig says that as the Northern Government
is not a party to the Treaty, they would refuse to nominate a member to the
Boundary Commission which he held to be ultra vires. He also expressed
the hope that real feelings of friendship might come about between the two
communities in the northern state.
Note
There is an interesting reference
in Phoenix (page 267) to a letter to Craig on December 6th from
Joseph R Fisher (who was later to be appointed a member of the Boundary
Commission) in which he pressed for the inclusion in Northern Ireland of
Donegal and north Monaghan and the transfer of south Armagh to the Free State
as this would result in a more compact and ‘ethnographic’ unionist territory.