Meeting of Northern Nationalists

Introduction from Chronology

Meeting in Dublin of northern nationalists with both Sinn Féin and ‘Hibernian’ nationalists present.  They decide to continue with the policy of non-recognition of the Northern Ireland Government. 

Comment

Phoenix argues that the main division in nationalists in the north was not the division between ‘Sinn Féiner’ and ‘Hibernian’ but between border nationalists (who looked to the Boundary Commission as a way of getting their area into the Free State) and the non-border nationalists (mainly in Belfast) who wanted no diminution of the area of Northern Ireland and that the Boundary Commission be used to get electoral reform and ‘adequate minority recognition’.

 

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