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’.