In the Six Counties it was declared, both in the press and at public meetings, that " Ulster " would not yield an inch of her territory. On the other hand, the Nationalists of the South considered that the counties of Tyrone and Fermanagh, in both of which there were small Nationalist majorities, or at least considerable parts of them, should be ceded to the Free State. That, if this were done, " Northern Ireland " would be reduced to such small ... Read More

Above : Portrait Of Henry Joy McCracken The Insurrection broke out at three different points : in mid-Leinster, that is to say in the counties of Kildare, Carlow, Meath and to some extent in Dublin ; in the Ulster counts of Antrim and Down ; and in Wexford and Wicklow In Cork there was one encounter between a few hundred peasants and a troop of yeomanry, but the rest of Munster, and the entire province of Connaught, remained quiet. Mid-Leinster.—As regards the mid-Leinster rising, ... Read More