Meeting of Northern Nationalists
Phoenix argues that the main division in nationalists in the north was not the division between ‘Sinn Feiner’ and ‘Hibernian’ but between border nationalists (who looked to the Boundary Commission as a way of getting their area into the Free State) and the non-border nationalists (mainly in Belfast) who wanted no diminution of the area of Northern Ireland and that the Boundary Commission be used to get electoral reform and ‘adequate minority recognition’.