Jim, I am not an "ultra-nationalist" or anything else.

I did not make "excuses like Irish people were given the choice to move to the area they wished."
You misunderstood me.
I was saying that the borders were chosen to leave as many as possible on the correct side.

In what sense was Ireland "still reeling from the results of the Famine?"

Have you an answer to the previous question I put Jim?
What choice?
That "tiny minority" were battle hardened, well armed and determined to fight against being subsumed into the new state.
The South could not fight them, and the British Army would not.
What choice?