Editor:
Most people in Ireland - except Taoiseach Martin - seem to think a United Ireland is going to happen. Indeed, I think the only way it could be stopped is if the IRA returned to the armed campaign.
Then England would move in 30,000 troops, more murderous than ever, and it would be another 50 years before there would be any talk of a settlement.
That is a bit over the top, you may think, but it serves to make a point. If the IRA were to make a return to war, it would most likely be engineered by the securocrats, like how they did it before in 1969 by weaponizing their Loyalist proxies in the North to bomb and assassinate and burn out Catholics in Belfast.
For example, in his important book, "Burnt Out: How The Troubles Began" (2019—Page 86), Belfast author Michael McCann tells how the key burner/arsonist, the late fanatical John McKeague, had a personal meeting with Northern Ireland Prime Minister Chichester-Clark at which McKeague fully briefed the Prime Minister on the plan to burn out the Catholics.
And, of course, we can assume that MI5 and MI6, or even the Royal Family, knew all about it.
It's a fact of Irish history that when it is seen that Catholics are making progress, the Protestant guns come out.
This is something which I hope people are aware of.
And the Protestant guns never come out without England’s collusion at the very top.
I do not really believe this will happen again, please God.
But, if nothing else, let it serve as a parable for today’s young Catholics in the North who may feel they have to take up arms.
That would be England’s agenda, not Ireland’s.
Catholics now are making progress because of Brexit, because the rigged, artificial Protestant majority is gone forever, and because of Scotland’s growing determination for national self-determination.
Scotland, not Oxford or London, is the spiritual home of the Protestants in the North.
So what will the much vaunted “Union” mean to the Protestants when Scotland leaves the Union?
Time for the Protestants to join the Irish Union, where they will be welcomed, respected, cherished, and never cast aside as England will certainly do, when it suits.
And where a Protestant can become President of all Ireland, whereas in England a Catholic is specifically forbidden to be King or Queen, and where King Charles proudly swore during his Coronation that he would do all in his power to maintain “Protestant succession to the Throne” - i.e. “No Taigs Here”.
Fr. Sean Mc Manus, Washington, D.C.
The writer is founder and president of the Irish National Caucus
