The legal creation of Northern Ireland will be marked this year
A customs check at the border in 1974. Image: PA Archive/PA Images A customs check at the border in 1974. Image: PA Archive/PA Images THE LEGAL CREATION of Northern Ireland will be marked in 2020.
In September, DUP leader Arlene Foster told an audience that it was time to look ahead to Northern Ireland’s centenary. Looking back on the act in 1986, historian Richard Murphy wrote: “In 1920 it satisfied Ulster, but the nationalists had waited too long for too little.” Yet even as Home Rule was becoming unsatisfactory to nationalists, unionists in the North – led by Edward Carson and James Craig – were organising to ensure self-government for Ireland would never be introduced.
In 1914, the pre-war Buckingham Palace conference considered the exclusion of some counties in Ulster from the rest of the country under a mooted Home Rule settlement – much to the opposition of nationalists in the North.When it came to formally dividing the island six years later, there was nothing straightforward about the creation of a new legal and administrative system in the six counties of the North.
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