Historical parallels between Ukraine and Ireland | Letter

Mike Morrogh on proposals for greater autonomy for the Donbas region and the creation of Northern Ireland a century ago

Simon Diggins (Letters, 25 January) urges that those, like Jenkins, who find it difficult to understand why a country like Ukraine might wish to chart its own course, let him look over the Irish Sea at a close historical parallel". Unfortunately, such a look might support Simon Jenkins' view that a measure of autonomy for eastern Ukraine is the only way out of the crisis. Ireland achieved practical independence at the cost of the partition of Ireland by the British government in 1920.
Mike Morrogh
Kew, London

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