LETTER OF THE WEEK
Troubled by ‘The Troubles’
In 1918 Sinn Fein won 73 out of 103 seats in the election held in all of Ireland. Before the treaty was signed Lloyd George threatened ‘immediate and terrible war’. A system was set up in the North of Ireland with massive discrimination in housing, banks, building societies, local councils, industries, universities and almost all aspects of life. This was legislated and financed by the British government, who deliberately provoked division – as expounded by General Kitson’s Low Intensity Operations, a handbook of how to foment hate, divide and rule.
There is hardly a mention of any of this at the Imperial War Museum exhibition ‘Northern Ireland: Living with the