The Irish Free State appointed a commission of bankers in 1926 who rejected a sovereign currency b/c of the "natural division of labor" b/w Ireland + Britain. (1st pic)
Sinn Fein founder, Arthur Griffith, explains how this "natural division" developed (pics 2-4)
Sinn Fein founder, Arthur Griffith, explains how this "natural division" developed (pics 2-4)
"In 1800 England forced the Union upon a flourishing Ireland...Ireland was once more turned back from tillage to grazing land, and one by one all her great industries...were again destroyed or reduced to skeletons of their former greatness." - Arthur Griffith
"made subject to England's economic absolutism. Having thrice within three hundred years destroyed Irish commercial and industrial prosperity by force and fraud." - Arthur Griffith
"the Irish people are the one people on the earth to-day whose education, commerce and industry having been repressed, are held up by the repressors to the scorn of the world as a lazy, idle, poverty-striken and illiterate people." - Arthur Griffith
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