UN General Assembly
1956

122. Here again I may perhaps venture a comparison with my own country. In Ireland we have also a grave problem: the problem of partition. The great majority of Irish men and women desire their country to be united under its own freely elected government, but, as a result of tactics resembling in some ways those that were taking place in Palestine at about the same time, Ireland was divided, and today six of its counties remain under British rule. We are determined that that situation shall be ended. We are determined that the unity of Ireland shall be achieved, but we are equally determined, as all our leaders have made clear, to achieve that end by peaceful means.