Sir, – Early in the new year, readers of the English press learned that repartition was no solution to the Northern Ireland problem, thanks to the release of previously classified 1984 British documents.
Cabinet minutes showed that the British government had formally considered repartitioning Northern Ireland before rejecting the idea.
Readers of The Irish Times hardly needed to wait to learn this. On September 18th, 1975, it published a lengthy article by myself and Ian McAllister showing why repartition would create enormous refugee flight and violence.
The article is accessible at www.profrose.eu/publications. – Your, etc,
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Prof RICHARD ROSE, FBA
Director,
Centre for the Study
of Public Policy,
University of Strathclyde,
Glasgow.