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The Proprieties to be observed at all times.
Posted on 05/22/2005 7:39:32 AM PDT by aculeus
May 22, 2005 -- SOME years after the 1974 collapse of the Sunning dale Agreement — Northern Ireland's first experiment in cross- community, unionist-nationalist power-sharing — Willie Whitelaw, the Tory minister who had negotiated the deal, was reminiscing about it with T.E. Utley, the conservative author of "Lessons of Ulster," still one of the most perceptive books on the "troubles."
Utley pointed out that this first power-sharing arrangement would probably have survived if it had not been accompanied by an All-Ireland Council that alienated almost all unionists. That had not only inspired a working-class Prod rebellion that killed Sunningdale but had also destroyed the career of the moderate Unionist leader, Brian Faulkner, who had tried to sell the entire package. Why had the British government put such pressure on Faulkner that he committed political suicide?
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Please ping other interested parties.
Note to self: develop an Irish ping list!
Note to aculeus, best develop two! One north and one south
You obviously haven't read too many FR threads about Irish politics.
No pattyfingers, if ye please.
The Proprieties to be observed at all times.
No negotiation with terrorists/traitors.
It was a surprise to learn that Father Fitzgibbon in "Going My Way" was in real life a, if you'll pardon the expression, Protestant.
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