"All sides agreed the bill."
On the understanding it was a transitional measure - the British, in collusion with the Unionists, secretly changed it thereby nullifying it.
What agrrements can be changed secretly without forming all the perties?
What problem do you have with this Keith?
"If all had gone smoothly, a united Ireland would have emerged."
No it wouldn't - the Unionists had made it clear that they would never work with a United Ireland as far back as The Curragh Mutiny
With Irish Home Rule due to become law in 1914, the British Cabinet contemplated some kind of military action against the Ulster Volunteers who threatened to rebel against it. Many officers, especially those with Irish Protestant connections, of whom the most prominent was Hubert Gough, threatened to resign rather than obey, privately encouraged from London by senior officers including Henry Wilson. - that was why Britain secretly changed the agreement - what problem do you have with this Keith.
"Then came the civil war."
The Civil War was brought about by a Partitioned Ireland being forced on The Republic
"Still waiting Jom"
And I'm still waiting for you to address fellow members of this thread in the manner you have been asked to by one of forum officers - I'm making an effort to be polite, for the sake of reasonable discussion, I suggest you fight your superiority complex and do the same.
If I demanded (in the arrogant way you are) responses to all the points I have put to you, we may as well have packed up and gone home at the time of the famine discussion.
If you can't be polite, please be quiet.
This gets more and more bizarrely unpleasant the longer it is dragged out.
Is there and adjudicator in the house?
Jim Carroll