POLITICS IN. NORTHERN IRELAND
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—May I be allowed a concluding comment on the letters of Mr. George Lutton and Mr. McClure Campbell supporting Lord Charlemont's description of the political division in Northern Ireland as a racial cleavage between an Anglo-Saxon majority and Celtic minority ?
These letters, unfortunately, are simply expressions of personal opinion and make no attempt to invalidate the historical evidence detailed in my letter of May 2nd— evidence which made it clear that, so far as the names Anglo- Saxon and Celt are applicable to any part of the population of Ireland, the two-races theory is a myth and therefore could not be the explanation of the political division in the North.
Viscount Charlemont and his supporters have surely forgotten that for a long period in the comparatively recent history of Ulster, the political division in the Province was that of Presbyterians plus Roman Catholics on the one side, and Anglicans on the other.
May I just add my cordial agreement with your corre• spondents' position, so well expressed by Mr. Lutton : " If Ireland is to be united it must be by mutual good will" ?—
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