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If anything, nationalists may have missed an opportunity by not simply shrugging their shoulders and saying “if that’s what it costs, then that’s what we will pay”. There’s more than a hint of “arguing with your fiancé over the cost of an engagement ring” about the focus on money
Hardline nationalists who’ve spent a lifetime wanting the Brits out now find that they must simultaneously argue that the Crown is an honourable and generous institution that will aid their cause.
Will high costs prevent reunification?
It is certainly arguable that DUP concerns reflect more a paranoia about the Union than they reflect any real or immediate threat to the Union.
This, I’m afraid, is what most organisations, and the country, would look like in a United Ireland. And yet for some reason, the most devoted nationalists are very upset by it.
It would be fascinating to see figures overlaying strong identification with the Irish Rugby Team with broad satisfaction about the state of the nation.
Ulstermen – or at least those of them who are persuadable – mostly understand why the Republic would not commemorate the battle of the Boyne
Up until Monday, I’d have said Nationalists had a pretty strong argument to make on that front.
What vision?
I must confess, such conversations have always struck me as intellectually interesting, but ultimately very silly
The passage of time has made the intellectual contradictions in Irish Republicanism much harder to sustain.
The absence of violence was supposed to bring them together. If anything, it appears to have driven them further apart.
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