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Sean Bresnahan on a United Ireland.

Posted by Jim on January 21, 2018

Sean Bresnahan on a United Ireland.

The existing two state arrangements in Ireland are the creation of British imperialism, designed to preserve imperial power in Ireland and the continued domination of Westminster — and those allied to Westminster — over the affairs of Ireland at the expense of her people.

Britain’s partition of Ireland, under the 1920 Government of Ireland Act, backed by supporting legislation employed since, can fairly be considered the product of military force — and indeed the continuing employment of that force.

The six and 26-county states stand in violation of Ireland’s sovereignty and are founded on the usurp of the Irish Republic, declared in law on 21st January 1919, as ratified by the Irish people through the contemporary democratic process of the time. This remains the last occasion Ireland was able to exercise genuine self-determination.

As such, their legitimacy is open to contest by those unwilling to view partition as a fair political settlement or an arrangement born of a democratic process, or indeed any process beyond the deployment of power in the form of superior military force and the threat of force — an act which itself constitutes the use of force.

Partition, and the states spawned thereof, can rightly then be held not only as illegitimate but indeed illegal and thus subject to challenge.

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