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By Luke Sproule
image captionThe Northern Whig made its feelings clear on polling day
When voters across Ireland went to the polls on 24 May 1921 to elect two new parliaments, the stakes were high and the atmosphere tense.
The War of Independence was still raging and just weeks earlier the Government of Ireland Act had come into effect, creating two new entities - Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland - both with their own parliaments.
In Northern Ireland the newspapers of the period reflected the tension.
The language of the unionist papers was of fighting for the religious and civil liberty of Ulster and saving the new country from IRA violence, while nationalists were urged to strike a blow against the partition of Ireland.
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As part of his series of articles on the Partition of Ireland, historian Cormac Moore outlines how, despite his undoubted strengths, Sir James Craig guaranteed a sustained reluctance by Catholics to recognise the legitimacy of the state he was instrumental in founding As a Down-born unionist, Sir James Craig, the first prime minister of Northern Ireland, had none of the doubts surrounding partition that the Dublin-born Carson had. Picture from The Bystander Cormac Moore 24 February, 2021 01:00
On becoming Ulster Unionist leader, Craig appeared to be mindful of governing for the nationalist minority but as 1921 progressed, his openness dissipated. Picture from The Sphere
File on republicans interned before Second World War declassified after 80 years Lancaster bombers from Battle of Britain in the Second World War Éamon Phoenix 29 December, 2020 00:01
The late Jimmy Drumm, at his wife Maire s grave. Mr Drumm was interned during the Second World War
Files on dozens of suspected IRA men who were interned shortly before, or during, the Second World War have been declassified after more than 80 years.
The first file, dated December 22, 1938, includes details of 34 men interned by Stormont home affairs minister Sir Dawson Bates, a founder of the pre-First World War UVF.
The files reveal the internees names, addresses, occupations and suspected rank in the IRA, including Frank McGrogan of North Queen Street in north Belfast, a window-cleaner and ‘Officer, G Company, Belfast Battalion’.