{"id":140357,"date":"2025-05-29T03:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T03:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/140357\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T03:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T03:18:09","slug":"how-unionists-root-of-all-evil-turned-catastrophic-for-the-island-of-ireland-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/140357\/","title":{"rendered":"How Unionists\u2019 \u2018root of all evil\u2019 turned catastrophic for the island of Ireland \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Historian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/tags\/cormac-moore\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/tags\/cormac-moore\/\">Cormac Moore<\/a> has launched his latest book, a critique of the workings of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/tags\/Boundary-Commission\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/tags\/Boundary-Commission\/\">Boundary Commission<\/a> 100 years on, which he concludes was a \u201cmomentous failure\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The launch took place at No Alibis on Botanic Avenue. Its title The Root of All Evil is a quote from the then Ulster Unionist leader James Craig, a reflection of the initial fears within the community he led.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Convened in 1924 after being offered by the British as part of the negotiations leading to the Anglo-Irish Treaty, there was a belief among nationalists tracts of the six counties would become part of the new Free State. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A century on, Mr Moore illuminates the fascinating and infuriating story behind the Boundary Commission\u2019s momentous failure, which would have long-lasting, catastrophic consequences for the entirety of the island of Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Historian Cormac Moore has launched his latest book, a critique of the workings of the Boundary Commission 100&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[678,1144,49380,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-140357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-ireland","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-partition","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114588962214363064","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}