Free Statism and the Good Old IRA av Danny Morrison

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<p>Writer and commentator Danny Morrison challenges Fianna F¿, Fine Gael and the Irish establishment over their attitude to partition and how the closer Ireland gets to a border referendum¿which could have a profound effect on the country¿s constitutional future¿the further they retreat from it.</p><p>He accuses them of having a ¿Free State¿ mentality which he describes as promoting the idea that the Twenty-Six Counties, the Republic of Ireland, is Ireland, a notion they promulgate through their pronounced usage of the terms Ireland and Northern Ireland in recent years.</p><p>Morrison also challenges them on the hollowness of their argument that the IRA had an electoral mandate to wage the War of Independence. He argues that the real criteria for the justification of armed struggle were the actual social, economic and oppressive political conditions of the time; that the IRA was preparing for guerrilla warfare before the December 1918 general election, regardless of how well Sinn F¿ in