Word: irelander
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After a recent futile meeting between President Cosgrave of the Irish Free State, Premier Sir James Craig of Northern Ireland and J. H. Thomas, Secretary of State for the Colonies, the British Government decided to call the Boundary Commission provided for in the Free State Agreement...
President Cosgrave has all along desired the convocation of this commission, but Premier Craig claimed that the boundary between the North and South had already been fixed by the Government of Ireland Act of 1920; he stated that he was ready to discuss the matter directly with President Cosgrave, but not through the Boundary Commission...
...Government appointed John MacNeill as their commissioner on the Boundary Commission. The British Government took immediate steps to appoint a commissioner, but one person after another refused the job, the latest being ex-Premier Sir Robert Borden of Canada. The British Government also called upon the Government of Northern Ireland to appoint their commissioner, but Premier Craig stoutly refused, declaring that "not a yard of our territory will be handed over to a foreign flag," and " if the frontier is attacked, we are entitled to the support of the British Army and Navy to protect our boundary...
...British Government were incorporated. One of the clauses of the treaty provided in certain contingencies for the establishment of a Boundary Commission to determine "in accordance with the wishes of the inhabitants, so far as may be compatible with economic and geographic conditions," the real boundary between Northern Ireland and the Free State...
...Northern Ireland now claims that the boundary was fixed by the Act of 1920 and that she was not a party to the 1922 Act. The Free State demands revision of the 1920 Act under the provisions...