The Framework of Home Rule by Erskine Childers
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year which passes aggravates the financial difficulties which imperil
the future of Ireland. The best hope of securing a final settlement of the Irish question in the immediate future lies in promoting open discussion on the details of the Home Rule scheme, and of drawing into that discussion all Irishmen and Englishmen who realize the profound importance of the issue. This book is offered as a small contribution to the controversy. For help in writing it I am deeply indebted to many friends on both sides of the Irish Channel, in Ireland to officials and private persons, who have generously placed their experience at my disposal; while in England I owe particular thanks to the Committee of which I had the honour to be a member, which sat during the summer of this year under the chairmanship of Mr. Basil Williams, and which published the series of essays called "Home Rule Problems." E.C. FOOTNOTES: [1] The two latter works were written by Mr. Lecky in his Nationalist youth the first and greater work after he had become a Unionist. They form a connected whole, however, and are not inconsistent with one another. [2] See "Democracy and Liberty." [3] "Did the people of Ireland understand that the destruction of the Union, so lightly advocated by Lord Haldane, must result in the |
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