Thomas Harbison
Thomas James Stanislaus Harbison (8 November 1864 – 22 November 1930) was an
He was born in Cookstown, County Tyrone, to John Harbison, a general merchant, and Isabella Daly.[1]
Harbison studied at
After attending the
"This is not a Bill for the better government of Ireland. I believe that the people in the county that I represent would be legally justified in using every form of resistance in their power to prevent this Act, if it ever becomes an Act, from coming into operation. It is a sentence of death, in my opinion, upon us as a unit in that Parliament. Our liberties are gone; and if the younger men of Ireland become indignant, and take courses that no sane man could defend, who will be responsible? The responsibility will be upon the men who have produced this Bill at the dictates of a narrow-minded set of reactionaries in the North-East corner of Ulster. It is a very small corner of Ulster; I have the map of it here. A set of reactionaries in that corner will have us under their heel for all time. I know the feeling of the men whom I represent, and I assure you, on this Armistice night, when all should be peace, that you are going to create, not peace, but eternal dissatisfaction, division, and, I am afraid, destruction."
At the
References
- ^ "General Registrar's Office". IrishGenealogy.ie. Retrieved 20 April 2017.
- ^ Harbison, Thomas (11 November 1920). Government of Ireland Bill (Speech). debate. UK House of Parliament: Hansard. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
- ^ Phoenix, Eamon & Parkinson, Alan (2010), Conflicts in the North of Ireland, 1900-2000, Four Courts Press, Dublin, Pg 142, ISBN 978 1 84682 189 9
Sources
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Thomas Harbison
- Alexander Thom and Son Ltd. 1923. p. – via Wikisource. . . Dublin: