Abstract
‘… Northern Ireland is a miserable place, with bigots at one end of the spectrum and murderers at the other, while all sorts in the middle make what terms and partial terms they can with the dominant brutes of their own tribe. … Ulster is a valley cut off, but alas not lost, at some stage in the seventeenth century. … I doubt if the British would grieve too deeply if one bunch of offshore primitives decided to massacre the other; we haven't minded in ex-colonial Africa. … Candidly, we want these people at arm's length, governed by rules fairer than their own brutal instincts. They are not part of us, but we have a sort of duty to them.’2

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