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The Importance of Historical Memory in the Irish Republic
When you were first minister, I think you didn't go to Dublin to commemorate the Easter Rising. But these are things that if an Irish state, a future United Ireland was to exist, you can't have things like that and have a million unionists or a million people in Northern Ireland who think of themselves as British. The Irish Republic would have to could change completely, not just in small ways. It couldn't celebrate the Easter Rising and all of those things. You can only be a unionist if you're part of the United Kingdom. If you're a political nationalist and you live in the UK, you can still carry on being a political unionist. Well, there'll always