"IN the 1973 referendum in Northern Ireland ?57% voted of which 98.9% voted to remain within the UK."
When Ireland was partitioned, the Northern Counties were left with the wealth producing industries and the best land
We first visited Ireland around this time and there was hrdly a young person between 17 to 45 living in this town - they'd all gone to America
Up to when Ireland joined the E.U. the Republic was still recovering from the hard times
With the outbreak of the Troubles and the economic situation, Northerners regarded the South as a liability
hen Ireland joined the E.U. it prospered and became "The Celtic Tiger" until the International bankers fucked up the economy agan
The position now as far as unity is concerned is that in the North the demand has shot up to almost parity and in the South, it is now regarded as inevitable thanks to Brexit
You have been told how your "majority" was obtained - the dead of The Trouble, when demands for Civil Rights of a minority led to open warfare shows just how democratic The North was
More recently, the same "democracy" was used in Britain when the Government bribed the terrorist linked DUP £1 billion of the British taxpayers money in order to stay in office

None of which makes your claim of "choosing to partition" anything but a crass load of invented horse-shit
Partition has produced decades of persecution and warfare - no nation has a right to partition another as history has shown... Korea, Cyprus, Vietnam, India, - all trouble spots and all hangover of Empire
Jim Carroll