Letter to Horace Plunkett, 5 June 1916 Letters 1916-1923

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Letter to Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett (1854-1932). Plunkett, Unionist MP, was an Anglo-Irish agricultural reformer, pioneer of agricultural cooperatives, supporter of Home Rule, and author.

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland Carson Papers, D1507/A/17/8 https://letters1916.ie/item/4316 English 1916-06-05 Horace Plunkett Politics Politics World War I (1914-1918)

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 D1507/A/17/8 PAGE 1 OF 2 1/2 BAY 44 40 5 June 1916 My dear Plunkett, I am sorry I am myself confined to bed at all events forfor to-day, but if I am well enough I shall call to see youto-morrow. I am sorry to hear you are unwell. I doubt verymuch whether there is any solution to which you and I could agreas we take very divergent views of the whole question and mynegotiations were carried on up to some days after my return fxxmfrom Belfast without any hint of any kind from any of my lateUnionist colleagues in the Cabinet that they did not reallyagree with Asquith's statement on the 25th. May, which allegedthat they were unanimous about a settlement. To withdraw, atthis stage, the offer which was carried by the Nationalistsin very grave difficulties would in my opinion probably renderthe carrying on of the war from a Parliamentary view almostimpossible and all that would be secured would be another weakexecutive in Ireland which would be challenged at every stepby disappointed and hostile Nationalists. To run these risksfor the sake of putting off till the end of the war the Actwhich then automatically comes into force does not seem to meto be a sound or statesmanlike policy and so far as Ulster isconcerned the settlement gives her all that we would have takenat Buckinhgam Palace Conference, and personally I would D1507/A/17/8 view with horror the necessaity of native hostilitiesin Ulster at the end of the war. Yours ever, The Rt. Hon. Sir Horace Plunkett Horace Plunkett Letter from Horace Plunkett to Edward Carson, 4 May 1916Letter to Horace Plunkett, 5 June 1916Letter from Horace Plunkett to Edward Carson, 5 July 1916