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.

 

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