CONTENTS

CHAP.

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II.

FOREWORD

THE STORY OF "HOME RULE"

BROKEN PLEDGES OR "GERMAN PLOTS"

III. FIVE CENTURIES OF IRISH WAR

IV. Two CENTURIES OF IRISH REBELLION

V. THE "ULSTER PROBLEM"

VI. THE CASE OF CANADA

VII. CAN IRELAND STAND ALONE?

SIR EDWARD CARSON REVIEWING THE ULSTER
REBELS. AT HIS SIDE STAND GENERAL
RICHARDSON AND COL. HACKETT PAIN, HIS
ENGLISH DRILLMASTERS

MAP OF IRELAND SHOWING PRESENT POLITICAL
BOUNDARIES

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FOREWORD

THE world is asked to consider Ireland merely as "England's domestic problem." Certain circumstances, unyielding as iron, preclude the acceptance of any such view. Not even by the utmost stretch of amiable intent can a question that strikes at the very heart of international agreement be set down and written off as "domestic." That magic formula, "self-determination," has marched armies and tumbled empires these last few years, playing too large a part in world-consciousness to be limited by any arbitrary discrimination in the hour of victory and adjustment. Even as Poles, Czechs, JugoSlavs, Ukrainians, Finns, and scores of other submerged nationalities are struggling to the upper air of independence, so does Ireland appeal to the solemn covenant of the Allies with its championship of the "rights of small peoples" and its sonorous assent to "the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed."

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