JAMES CRAIG, 1ST VISCOUNT CRAIGAVON

Orangemen were the ulta Protestant Nationalists of Northern Ireland. Both Protetants and Catholics had their extremists who publicly spewed their hate, desire for exclusivity, and insults with little moderation from moderates who always risked retaliation from the extremists even of their own religion, not unlike the situation of the beginning of the 21st century, where Muslim moderates were cowed and intimidated by the religious Islamic extremists.

Craig’s bias against Catholics was so great that it never occurred to him that he was addressing a Catholic Prime Minister.

It did sweep the polls. The Protestant Unionists won 40 seats; Sinn Fein and the Nationaists won only 6 each.

At the time a Boundary Commission was meeting to decide on the border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State in the South pursuant to The Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921. There was fear that territory near the general border that had been in the Northern provinces might be given to the Free State because there were pockets of Catholics living there. To put pressure on the Commission, the PM called a Snap Election and made this slogan the center of the campaign.

Craig’s bias against Catholics was so great that it never occurred to him that he was addressing a Catholic Prime Minister.

At the time a Boundary Commission was meeting to decide on the border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State in the South pursuant to The Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921. There was fear that territory near the general border that had been in the Northern provinces might be given to the Free State because there were pockets of Catholics living there. To put pressure on the Commission, the PM called a Snap Election and made this slogan the center of the campaign.

It did sweep the polls. The Protestant Unionists won 40 seats; Sinn Fein and the Nationaists won only 6 each.

Orangemen were the ulta Protestant Nationalists of Northern Ireland. Both Protetants and Catholics had their extremists who publicly spewed their hate, desire for exclusivity, and insults with little moderation from moderates who always risked retaliation from the extremists even of their own religion, not unlike the situation of the beginning of the 21st century, where Muslim moderates were cowed and intimidated by the religious Islamic extremists.