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  • Thumbnail for Ulster Covenant
    Solemn League and Covenant, commonly known as the Ulster Covenant, was signed by nearly 500,000 people on and before 28 September 1912, in protest against...
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    Belfast (/ˈbɛlfæst/ BEL-fast, /-fɑːst/ -⁠fahst; from Irish: Béal Feirste [bʲeːlˠ ˈfʲɛɾˠ(ə)ʃtʲə]) is the capital city and principal port of Northern Ireland...
    214 KB (20,060 words) - 21:31, 25 September 2024
  • Church of Ireland and Methodist Chaplaincy Belfast is a jointly-backed Christian mission, currently based at Queen's University Belfast. The status of the...
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    Belfast is the capital of Northern Ireland, and throughout its modern history has been a major commercial and industrial centre. In the late 20th century...
    124 KB (16,581 words) - 13:09, 18 August 2024
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    prior to the signing of the Solemn League and Covenant (Ulster), opposing Home Rule, in Belfast City Hall on 10 September 1912. The group was inaugurated...
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    the Covenant, under the command of Lieutenant-General Sir George Richardson KCB. William Gibson was the first commander of the 3rd East Belfast Regiment...
    20 KB (2,442 words) - 12:31, 21 July 2024
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    Ulster Covenant at Belfast City Hall against the Irish Home Rule Bill. The events were reenacted 100 years later in 2012 including a number of Northern...
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    Unionism in Ireland (category History of Ireland (1801–1923))
    At what was to be the high point of mobilisation in Ulster against Home Rule, the Covenant Campaign of September 1912, the unionist leadership decided...
    180 KB (20,225 words) - 13:22, 10 September 2024
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    Unionist Council in the old town hall on 7 September 1912 at which it committed to signing the Ulster Covenant in protest at the Third Home Rule Bill. Carson...
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    James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon (category Politicians from Belfast)
    demonstration in Belfast, Edward Carson, the Dublin barrister he had nominated for the leadership of the UUC, led in signing the Ulster Covenant. The signatories...
    37 KB (3,512 words) - 07:17, 13 August 2024
  • in the year 1912 in Ireland. 8 February – The First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill addressed a pro-Home Rule meeting in Belfast despite Ulster...
    10 KB (1,147 words) - 00:57, 21 September 2024
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    The Royal Belfast Academical Institution is an independent grammar school in Belfast, Northern Ireland. With the support of Belfast's leading reformers...
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  • Thomas Sinclair (politician, 1838–1914) (category Alumni of Queen's University Belfast)
    Ulster-Scots businessman and politician who drafted the Ulster Covenant. Thomas Sinclair was born in Belfast on 23 September 1838. His parents were Thomas (1811–1867)...
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    Home Rule Crisis (category Constitutional history of Northern Ireland)
    have to follow". On 'Ulster Day', 28 September 1912, over 500,000 Unionists signed the Ulster Covenant pledging to defy Home Rule by all means possible...
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    "The 1912 Ulster Covenant by Joseph E.A. Connell Jr". historyireland.com. History Ireland Magazine. 2012. Retrieved 7 December 2018. "The Lockout of 1913"...
    28 KB (2,891 words) - 20:00, 4 September 2024
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    Frederick H. Crawford (category People educated at Methodist College Belfast)
    from the Ulster Hall in central Belfast to the nearby City Hall on Donegall Square for the signing of the Ulster Covenant, which he is alleged to have signed...
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    James Connolly (category Members of the Socialist Labor Party of America)
    children would come to laugh at the Ulster Covenant.: 485  In April 1912, four of the five Belfast branches of the ILP attended a unity conference called...
    110 KB (12,397 words) - 22:23, 23 September 2024
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    Ulster (redirect from Province of Ulster)
    Dublin-born barrister Sir Edward Carson and James Craig, signed the "Ulster Covenant" of 1912 pledging to resist Home Rule. This movement also set up the Ulster...
    69 KB (7,313 words) - 18:49, 24 September 2024
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    Larne gun-running (category Military history of County Antrim)
    to the threats of the Ulster Covenant to resist implementation of the Third Home Rule Bill, which had been introduced on 11 April 1912 by Prime Minister...
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    September 1912, their leader, Edward Carson, introduced the Ulster Covenant in Belfast, pledging to exclude Ulster from home rule. The Covenant was signed...
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