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Would a nine-county Northern Ireland have survived?

Would a nine-county Northern Ireland have survived?

The BelTel · Belfast Telegraph Podcasts

November 29, 202526m 4s

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Northern Ireland is six counties. But the province of Ulster was – and is – made up of nine counties – all including Ulster Protestants. As partition loomed, Unionists chose six counties and demographic dominance over nine counties with a much smaller protestant majority. But what if Donegal, Monaghan and Cavan remained in the UK? 

Ciarán Dunbar is joined by Samuel Beckton, author of ‘The Unbroken Covenant: Could Ulster Unionists have controlled a nine-county Northern Ireland, 1920-1945'. 



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