The great fraud of Ulster

by T. M. Healy

“Sophistries, insinuations, mere rhetoric, and all kinds of irrelevancies.... Prejudice and ignorance are invited to pronounce judgment on what has already been determined by the highest judicial authority.... But no mere list of mistakes could correct the false impressions conveyed by innuendo, assumption, and special pleading. It is simpler to regard the whole book as one vast erratum.”—The Times (London), 4th Sept., 1913.

THE GREAT FRAUD OF ULSTER

THE GREAT FRAUD
OF ULSTER

BY
T. M. HEALY, M.P.
Dublin:
M. H. GILL & SON, LTD.
50 UPPER O’CONNELL STREET
1917
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

PRINTED BY
INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPERS, LTD.,
111 MIDDLE ABBEY STREET,
DUBLIN.

IN STEDFAST MEMORY
OF
JOSEPH GILLIS BIGGAR,
OF BELFAST.
M.P. for Cavan, 1874-1890.
THE MOST UNSELFISH, FEARLESS,
AND STRAIGHTFORWARD
PUBLIC MAN
THAT I HAVE KNOWN.

PREFACE.

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These pages give a shorter, and, it is hoped, a less legal, setting to facts published for the first time some five years ago under the title, “Stolen Waters.” They chiefly concern those counties of Ulster lately threatened with severance from the rest of Ireland. The story, such as it is, has been re-told and simplified in the hope that acquaintance with it may quicken and heighten the spirit of resistance to the statecraft of Partition.

A stubborn fight for a great stake has been waged in the disputed area for three hundred years, and the struggle to clutch the prize exhibits more starkly than any other single theme the felonious continuity of Anglo-Ulster administration.