The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann, Volume 2 - Number 49

While many of Eoin Mac Néill’s front page ‘Notes’ tend to be repetitious and pedestrian, this issue carries a strong and severe indictment of the Irish Party and its leaders for agreeing in principle to Partition in 1914. 

The occasion for Mac Néill’s attack was the revelation by John Redmond in Westminster and John Dillon in Armagh that they agreed to the “temporary exclusion” of Ulster counties from Home Rule because they were, in Dillon’s words “up against the most formidable combination that ever faced a body of public men”. This included both main British political parties, the British military establishment and the monarchy. 

Mac Néill demands to know why the Irish Party did not reveal this to the Irish people at the time and denies the claim of Dillon that they had “the support and approval” of all the leading Nationalists of Ulster for agreeing to Partition.

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