ABSTRACT
Of all political quotations about Ireland, Winston Churchill's summary of the Irish Question at the end of the First World War is the most celebrated:
The whole map of Europe has been changed. The mode and thought of men, the whole outlook on affairs, the grouping of parties, all have encountered violent and tremendous changes in the deluge of the world, but as the deluge subsides and the waters fall we see the dreary steeples of Fermanagh and Tyrone emerging once again. 1
