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Ulster’s ‘Lost Counties’

In December 1922 a proclamation signed by George V formally established the Irish Free State. Among loyalists in three border counties of Ulster, partitioned and cut adrift from unionist jurisdiction, the sense of betrayal was acute.

Jack Hepworth | Published in History Today Volume 72 Issue 12 December 2022

a man pastes over ‘Vote for de Valera’ election posters with arrest notices, Ireland, c.1923 Photo © Topical Press Agency/ Getty Images. Hulton Archive Collection.
A man pastes over ‘Vote for de Valera’ election posters with arrest notices, Ireland, c.1923 Photo © Topical Press Agency/ Getty Images. Hulton Archive Collection. 

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