Report of the Irish Boundary Commission, 1925
Irish Boundary Commission (Richard Feetham, J. R. Fisher, Eóin MacNeill), Geoffrey J. Hand (ed.)The commission's final report and recommendations were suppressed, due to controversy after a press leak of its draft border changes, and then the resignation of the Irish Free State commissioner, Eóin MacNeill, leaving only the Northern Irish one, J. R. Fisher, and a British–South African chairman-moderator, Richard Feetham. Most records of the commission's proceedings were taken to the UK.
After British freedom-of-information legislation passed in the late 1960s, the report, together with a collection of records from the British National Archives (minutes, papers, correspondence, records of oral and written evidence) were finally published in 1969, including a map and detailed textual description of the boundary changes that would have been recommended – and which might have altered (for better or worse) the violent course of modern Ulster history.
The book features a concise but generally sufficient introduction by editor Geoffrey J. Hand, outlining the commission's formation, operation, and eventual failure, though this is covered in more detail in several stand-alone books.