R  `."System- "Systemgl`-"System--@Times New Roman---  2 x`c   2 `cUCC  d2 ;capproves exclusion of Donegal, Monaghan and Cavan from new               ,2 `cNorthern Ireland state       2 c  @Times New Roman--- 52 `cIntroduction from Chronology         2 Sc  @Times New Roman--- 2 `McThe Ulster Unionist Council, with Edward Carson presiding, decides to accept                    q2 `Dcthe proposals that partition should be based on six counties rather                    2 Tcthan the nine       v2 `Gccounties of Ulster (accepting Craigs argument against the creation of                    P2 "`.cpotentially unstable and ungovernable state          12 "cif the new state took in       2 "| cthe nine     @Times New Roman--------- 2 7`ccou  %2 7|cnties of Ulster).  ---  2 7c  --- 2 T` cMore Detail    2 Tc  --- v2 p`GcA resolution was put to the Convention (by Lord Farnham from Cavan and                     v2 `Gcseconded by Michael E. Knight from Monaghan) that the partition should                  }2 `Lcinclude all nine counties of Ulster (in line with the Covenant) but this is                  w2 `Hcdefeated. This is condemned by unionists from the three Ulster counties               @Times New Roman------------ @2 `#c(Monaghan, Donegal and Cavan) who,       --- 2 cin  2 cter alia  --- 82 c, state that the Covenant had         t2 `Fcbeen shown to be nothing more than a mere scrap of paper. Monaghan                  w2 `Hcdelegates subsequently resigned from the UCC. Belfast unionist MP, Tom                   }2 `LcMoles, argues that in a sinking ship, with lifeboats sufficient for a only                    2 ctwo   2 c-  2 `Ncthirds of the ships company, were all to condemn themselves to death because                       ------ 12 1`call could not be saved.       ---  2 1c  --- |2 M`KcThere was considerable dismay among unionists in the three excluded Ulster                  @Times New Roman--------------- 42 b`ccounties. For example, on       2 b6cMarch    2 bic  2 bnc12 --- 2 ]cth--- ;2 b c, James Stronge, Grand Master of        2 bc  2 bcthe    y2 x`IcOrange Lodge, when writing to Montgomery said that Belfast unionists had                    }2 `Lcthrown their fellow unionists in Cavan, Donegal and Monaghan to the wolves                   ------------ s2 `Ecwith very little compunction. Also, in May 1920, the editor of the                --- 2 t cNorthern    --------- 2 `cStandard   ---  2 c  "2 cnewspaper said     X2 -3cthat no array of figures could form an excuse for                2 `Mcbreaking such an undertaking as the Ulster Covenant. However, the essence                   J2 `*cof the issue was distilled by John Gunning            2 c- =2 !cMoore, a Cookstown unionist the           Y2 `4cwhole question of breach of the Covenant turns upo               /2 cn numbers the whole 9        2 `Qcwill be such a rickety parliament that it must [almost] at once be absorbed into                         v2 $`Gcthe Dublin one. Many unionists in Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan had a                  2 9`Pcsense of betrayal that they had been excluded. This was similar to the sense of                      2 9c   2 O`Pcbetrayal that the nationalists in Northern Ireland (especially those in the new                    z2 d`Jcborder counties) had in being trapped in the Northern Ireland after the                  ------ U2 y`1cdeliberations of the Boundary Commission (see Dec            2 yc- 2 yc12   2 yc- 2 yc25/1   2 y<c).---  2 yGc  --- =2 `!cHowever, many unionists in the co         D2 r&cunties of Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan         y2 `Icwould seem to have quite quickly accommodated them themselves to the new                     2 `Mcpolitical situation. For example, as early as July 1920, J. C. W. Madden (a                    q2 `Dcprominent Monaghan unionist), after denouncing Carson for the exclus                  2 cion of     v2 `GcMonaghan, called on his fellow Orangemen to give their allegiance to a                   "Arial--ccbbaa