Regarding the date of the Unionist Party's foundation, Guest, I am merely quoting from its website. Have you any reason to question its accuracy?The purpose of my intervention was to point out that even Sinn Fein's thinking has been coloured by partition and engages in double think about what is Ireland and what is not. Your implication that somehow the equal claims to antiquity of the Unionist Party shouldn't count because it is not an all Ireland party is an illustration of this.
In any case, at the time of its foundation the Unionist Party was an all Ireland party and many of its members, including Carson, opposed partition.