Ireland's Future sounds a shade too much like Ireland's past
Cartoon by Jim Cogan
Eoghan Harris
Éamon de Valera, with excruciating precision, as far back as 1933 set out the position of the Irish government for ending partition: first make the Republic a warm house for Northern Protestants.
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