Jim,
Britain carefully chose the six counties to give them a Protestant majority - that's why we never refer to them as "Ulster" - three counties were deliberately excluded afiet Britain had don her sums
That is deliberately building in inequality into a State - Gerrymandering, to give it its correct title

No Jim. The Unionist community wanted to be in and the Nationalists wanted to be out, so the line was drawn to please as many people as possible.
Consideration, to give it its correct title.

Thompson,
Keith A, a small correction, if you wouldn't mind. The British Parliament did indeed pass the Home Rule Bill in 1914 - but it was then shelved until the end of the war; it was never enacted fully.

The fact that it was passed proves that Britain did not want any of Ireland.
It would have been enacted but for the pointless and unnecessary 1916 "Rising" (when hardly anyone rose.)

Had they just waited for the war to end (and their boys come home) decades of bloodshed would have been saved and a United Ireland achieved early in 1919.
The fools the fools.

Al,
frankly no. they forfeited that right cos they couldn't behave themselves.

Every person? Collective punishment?