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DE VALERA 2££££ULSTER QUESTION 1917-1973 Winner ofthe Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize Bowman John 'theessential keyto understanding British and Irish policytowards Ulster' Enoch Powell De Valera and The Ulster Question 1917-1973 Digitized by the Internet Archive 2012 in http://archive.org/details/devaleraulsterOObownn DE VALERA AND THE ULSTER QUESTION 1917-1973 JOHN BOWMAN Oxford New York OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1989 Oxford UniversityPress, Walton Street, Oxford0x2 6dp Oxford New York Toronto Delhi Bombay Calcutta Madras Karachi PetalingJaya Singapore Hong Kong Tokyo Nairobi DaresSalaam Cape Town Melbourne Auckland andassociatedcompanies in Berlin Ibadan Oxfordisa trademarkofOxford UniversityPress Publishedin the UnitedStates by Oxford UniversityPress, New York ©John Bowman 1982 Firstpublished1982by Oxford UniversityPress Firstissuedasan Oxford UniversityPresspaperback 1983 Reprinted 1983, 1984, 1989 Allrightsreserved. Nopartofthispublication maybe reproduced, storedina retrievalsystem, ortransmitted, in anyform orbyanymeans, electronic, mechanical,photocopying, recording, orotherwise, without thepriorpermission ofOxford UniversityPress Thisbook issoldsubject to thecondition that itshallnot, byway oftradeorotherwise, be lent, re-sold, hiredoutorotherwisecirculated withoutthepublisher'spriorconsent inanyform ofbindingorcover otherthan thatin which it ispublishedandwithoutasimilarcondition including thiscondition being imposedon thesubsequentpurchaser British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Bowman,John, 1942- De Valera andthe Ulsterquestion, 1917-1973. 1. Ireland. Partition. AttitudesofDe Valera, Famon, 1917-1973 I. Title 320.5'4'09415 ISBN0-19-285216-7 LibraryofCongress Cataloging in Publication Data Dataavailable Printedin Great Britain by Richard Clay Ltd. Bungay, Suffolk For Eimer and in memory ofmy parents Acknowledgements I am indebted to the following individuals and wish to record mythanks: FrankAiken, the late Ernest Blythe, F. H. Boland, Kevin Boland, the late Lord Brookeborough, Noel Browne, Mike Burns, Dan Bryan, Patrick Buckland, Jack Carroll, Michael Carroll, the late Erskine Childers II, M. J. Costello, Cornelius Cremin, Bernard Crick, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Paddy Devlin, Ted Dolan, James Dillon, T. Ryle Dwyer, Robin Dudley Edwards, the late Brian Faulkner, Gerard Fitt, Donal Flanagan, Alexis FitzGerald, Garret FitzGerald, Douglas Gageby, George Gilmore, the late Joseph Groome, Kevin Healy,KerryHolland, Patrick Hillery, Patrick Keatinge, John M. Kelly, Brian Lenihan, the late Sean Lemass, Lord Longford, Jack Lynch, Charles Lysaght, Edward MacAteer, Sean MacBride, the late Frank MacDermot, the late Malcolm MacDonald, Sean MacEntee, Peter McEvoy, Fred McEvoy, the late Liam MacGabhann, Brendan MacGiolla Choille, Patrick MacGill, the late Patrick McGilligan, the late Michael Mclnerney, Edward MacLysaght, Deirdre MacMahon, Tom Manning, Jack Miller, Maurice Moynihan, Edward Mulhall, Brigid Mullins,John A. Murphy, thelateSeanNunan,Dermod O'Bryne, Patricia Grennan O'Byrne, Martin O'Donoghue, Peadar O'Donnell, Ronan O'Donoghue, Cornelius O'Leary, T. P. O'Neill, Bernadette O'Sullivan, William O'Sullivan, Eamonn Phoenix, Brian Quinn, Brian Reynolds, Liam Robin- son, the late David Thornley, James Tully, Elizabeth Turner, andJ.H. Whyte. I also wish to record my thanks to the directors, librarians, keepers, and staffsofthe followingrecordofficesandarchives: Manuscripts Department, Birmingham University Library; Department of Western Manuscripts, Bodleian Library, Oxford; British Library; Public Records Division, Public Archives of Canada, Ottawa; Department of Western Manu- Acknowledgements viii scripts, University Library, Cambridge; Manuscripts Division, Library of Congress, Washington; Freeman Library, Depart- ment of Geography, Trinity College, Dublin; House of Lords Record Office, London; National Archives, Washington; Department of Manuscripts, National Library of Ireland; Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library; Archives of the Department of External Affairs, Ottawa; Public RecordOffice,London;Public RecordOfficeofIreland, Dublin; Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, Belfast; Radio Telefis Eireann; Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, New York State; State Paper Office, Dublin; Manuscripts Room, Trinity College, Dublin; Archives Department, University College Dublin. I am especially indebted to the staff of the Library, Trinity College, Dublin. As my 'Note on sources' below underlines, there has been a dearth of good source material for the writing of contem- porary Irish history. Consequently, Irish historians are in- debted to the families of Ernest Blythe, Erskine Childers, Frank Gallagher, Patrick McGilligan, Mary MacSwiney, Richard Mulcahy, and others who have made their papers available forresearch.I gladly add my thanks here. I am grate- ful to Lord Craigavon for permission to photocopy his mother's diary; and to Mrs Dingwall for permission to read her father, W. B. Spender'spapers at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland in Belfast. I feel a special debt to the political reporters on Irish newspapers for their accurate and fair-minded chronicling of Irish politics: this is especially noteworthy in the case of the Irish Press — founded after all by de Valera — and so often pilloried as the 'kept paper' of the Fianna Fail party. I am especially indebted to the late Francis MacManus, T. W. Moody, and T. Desmond Williams for their encourage- ment at important moments. I gladly record my thanks to Professor Basil Chubb of Trinity College, Dublin, my super- visor for the original Ph.D. thesis on which this book is based, — for providing the right mixture of cajolement, approval and coercion. I am indebted to the staff of the Oxford Uni- versity Press for their courtesy and guidance. To my family the completed typescript and, earlier, the thesis onwhichitisbased,musthaveseemedlikeBillyBunter's
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