Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 14:47

From: John Swan

Subject: Unionists

I think that Dicey may have signed the Ulster Covenant, committing himself to armed resistance to Home Rule for Ireland — this from a writer on constitutional law!

John Swan

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From: michael furmston
Sent: April 26, 2007 4:04 AM
Subject: ODG: Unionists

Surely most English politicians around 1900 who described themselves as Unionists were thinking of Ireland and not of Scotland. The group who followed Joseph Chamberlain out of the Liberal party over Gladstone's Home Rule policy called themselves Liberal Unionists.

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