Catholic Belfast and Nationalist Ireland in the Era of Joe Devlin, 1871-1934The Irish revolution of 1916 23 is generally regarded as a success. It was a disastrous failure, however, for the Catholic and nationalist minority in what became Northern Ireland. It resulted in partition, a discriminatory majoritarian regime and, more recently, a generation of renewed violence and a decade of political impasse. It is often suggested that the blame for this outcome rests not only on perfidious Albion and the bigotry of Ulster