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Ulster 1912-1922: How the Treaty negotiators lost control of the Irish Border amid high pressure and British duplicity

The Irish Times 23 Nov 2024
Ulster 1912-1922 ... Author ... In the Boundary Commission and Border Minorities, the final essay in this collection from the Ulster Historical Foundation, Cormac Moore focuses on a note of uncertainty that would create future consternation ... Ulster 1912-1922.
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Colm Tóibín’s Long Island is Waterstones Irish Book of the Year

The Irish Times 22 Nov 2024
Reviews are Anthony Roche on Nicholas Grene’s Irish Theatre in the Twenty-First Century; Neil Hegarty on Ulster 1912-22.
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‘We live in a messy world’: Harold Good became internationally known as a witness to IRA decommissioning

The Irish Times 27 Oct 2024
His grandfather, Isaac was one of hundreds of Ulster Volunteer Force men who landed arms at Larne on the Antrim coast in 1912 to fight Home Rule ... He still has a copy of the invoice ... READ MORE ... .
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When a MAGA-style movement nearly destroyed democracy — 110 years ago

Yahoo Daily News 19 Oct 2024
The Liberal government and its Irish nationalist partners kept trying to convince themselves that was all hot air — sounds familiar, right? — but the wish-casting got more challenging after Carson unveiled the Ulster Covenant of 1912.
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The Tory leadership race says it all about the trouble they are in. Jenrick, Badenoch, Stride: what a crew!

The Observer 09 Sep 2024
If there is such a thing as unrapt inattention, that will be more like it ... Within a matter of years, during the Ulster crisis of 1912-14 – the lowest point in the party’s history – the Tories were almost inciting civil war and mutiny in the army ... .
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‘Russian protest punk and symphonies might seem worlds apart. But the idea is the same: weaponise your art’

The Observer 07 May 2024
Belfast will hear these words sung out on the same stage where in 1912 Edward Carson sang a righteous O God, Our Help in Ages Past before signing the Ulster Covenant, galvanising opposition to Home ...
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Sir Roger Casement never deserved to hang

The Spectator 04 Apr 2024
Telling the story of Sir Roger Casement’s life is a challenge for any biographer ... Smith, of course, had personal experience of treason, having been among the first to run guns into Ireland in 1912 to arm a carefully planned Ulster Unionist rebellion ... .
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L.L. Bean expected to open in March at Bed, Bad & Beyond site in town ...

Daily Freeman 30 Nov 2023
TOWN OF ULSTER, N.Y ... Bean is expected to be fully moved into the former Bed, Bath and Beyond space at Ulster Crossing plaza in four months, town Supervisor James Quigley said ... Bean was founded in 1912 ...
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Jeffrey Donaldson’s admission about direct rule reflects unionism’s tough choices

The Irish Times 23 Oct 2023
I understood why so many determined Ulster folk has supported the general strike. The statue of Carson round which they gathered in front of Stormont symbolised their conviction that Ulster was going through another 1912.
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Union or unity? How opposing sides set out stalls at Ireland’s Future and Together UK rallies

Belfast Telegraph 25 Nov 2022
The very choice of the Ulster Hall for the pro-unity event symbolised how much the status quo has changed ... He found out that his great grandfather who signed the Ulster Covenant in 1912 in an Orange hall was a fluent Irish speaker.
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Andrew Bonar Law and Ireland

The Irish Times 31 Oct 2022
Sir, – Ronan McGreevy describes as “a notorious act of sedition” Andrew Bonar Law’s declaration in his Blenheim Palace speech of 1912 that he could “imagine no length of resistance to which Ulster ...
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Tory ruthlessness: Ronan McGreevy on Andrew Bonar Law

The Irish Times 23 Oct 2022
Bonar Law was the leader of the Conservative party when the Home Rule Bill was first introduced into the UK parliament in March 1912 ... In a notorious act of sedition in a democracy, Bonar Law declared in 1912.
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How Easter Rising led to the demise of Carson’s role in politics

Belfast Telegraph 03 Oct 2022
Many were initially dismissive of the rebellion, though these attitudes tended to emanate from Ulster ... There were many southern unionists who did not approve of Ulster’s militant methods during 1912-14.
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United Ireland: Partition debate ‘must not be reduced to sectarian headcount’, says Heather Humphreys

Irish Independent 03 Oct 2022
In 2016, when she was leading Easter Rising centenary celebrations, she revealed that her grandfather, Robert James Stewart, had signed the anti-Home Rule Ulster Covenant in 1912.But she also ...

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