“The Sinn Fein leadership had this notion that all of the problems were to do with British guile: once Britain leaves the Ulster Unionists will happily come into United Ireland, which was completely removed from the truth.”
istorian Cormac Moore’s new book looks at the failure of the Boundary Commission one hundred years on. He talks to Dion Fanning about the mistakes made by the Treaty negotiators, their failure to understand unionism and the errors of Eoin MacNeill.
