Southern Unionists claim abandonment by Ulster

Wicklow, 20 July 1916 - A gathering swell of resentment among southern unionists is condemning Ulster for abandoning those who live outside of the six counties excluded from Home Rule in the proposed partition of Ireland.

One of their number – T.S.F. Battersby – has written that the position of Ulster unionists is ‘astonishing’. Mr Battersby accuses his counterparts in the North of being ‘only concerned with their own security’ and willing ‘to leave their, once, fellow unionists to stew in their own juices’.

[Editor's note: This is an article from Century Ireland, a fortnightly online newspaper, written from the perspective of a journalist 100 years ago, based on news reports of the time.]