Ulster

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31987, 14 May 1969, Page 16

Ulster

Sir,—“P.H.R,” in trying to put the blame for a divided 'lreland on the 1916 Irish attack on Dublin’s government buildings, ignores the repressive famine and vital facts of Irish history. One cause of the division of Ireland was the illegal volunteer army formed by Sir Edward Carson in 1913. In the words of Lord Dufferin, “From Queen Elizabeth’s rein until within a few years of the Union, the various commercial confraternities of Great Britain never for a moment relaxed their relentless grip on the trades of Ireland. One by one each of our nascent industries was either strangled in its birth or bound to the jealous custodies of the rival interest in England. English writers of the eighteenth century teem with denunciations of the rack-renting and evictions inflicted by landlords upon the tenants.” There will be no real peace in Ireland until it is united under one government.—Yours, etc, SETH NEWELL. May 13, 1969. Sir,—Although a few armed Dublin revolutionists caused trouble for one day in 1916

against local authority and their fellow citizens, many Irish there' did fight for their country and King against Germany. Ulster citizens do fear Roman Catholic domination. Because England accepts unlimited Irish Republic immigrants to work or to live in England and is her best export customer, the Irish Republic seeks England’s continued friendship. But coloured British Commonwealth citizens from Kenya, Pakistan, West Indies, and even Kiwis and Aussies have restricted entry to work in England. But not the Irish, whose unemployment is kept in check because of England’s help.— Yours, etc, J.M.B. May 13, 1969. Sir, —I heartily agree with “P.H.R.’s” letter of May 12. Yours, etc, DOASYOUWOULDBEDONEBY. May 13, 1969. [This correspondence is now closed.—Ed, “The Press.”]