Index
Source: | Ulster's Stand for Union | 1922 | Ronald McNeill |
Section: | Index |
(N.B. The page numbers in the index refer to the original hard copy edition of 1922)
Abercorn, James, 2nd Duke of, at the Belfast Convention, 33; President of the Ulster Unionist Council, 35; illness, 47, 85, 108; signs the Covenant, 122; death, 144
Abercorn, James, 3rd Duke of, 257, 282
Abercorn, Mary, Duchess of, President of the Women's Unionist Council, 37
Adair, Gen. Sir Wm., at Larne, 217
Afghan Campaign, 161
Africa, South, War, 18
Agar-Robartes, Hon. Thomas, amendment on the Home Rule Bill, 92, 94-97, 132
Agnew, Capt. Andrew, viii, 193, 202, 210, 213, 214, 220
Albert Hall, meetings at, 14, 21, 34, 71
Alexander, Dr., Bishop of Derry, at the Albert Hall, 14
Allen, C. E., 156
Allen, W. J., 35
Althorp, Lord, 138
Altrincham, election, 155
Amending Bill, 221, 223, 227; postponed, 228, 230; see Home Rule
America, War of Independence, 273
Amery, L. C. S., at Belfast, 81; on the Curragh Incident, 182
Amiens, threatened capture of, 266
Anderson, R. N., Mayor of Londonderry, letter to President Wilson, 273, 296-299
Andrews, John M., letter to President Wilson, 296-299
Anglo-German relations, 167, 201
Annual Register, viii, 18 note, 21, 54 note, 76, 78 note, 138, 154 note, 155 note, 157 note, 166 note, 167 note, 169 note, 170 note, 201 note, 222 note, 223 note, 238, 271 note, 272 note
Archdale, E. M., 35; Chairman of the Standing Committee, 35; Minister for Agriculture, 282
Armagh, military depot, 175, 176
Armaghdale, Lord, 263; signs the Covenant, 122; see Lonsdale
Armistice, the, 275
Army, British, sympathy with Ulster Loyalists, 187-189
Arran, Isle of, 175
Asquith, Rt. Hon. H. H., on the opposition of Ulster to Home Rule, 1, 2; at the Albert Hall, 21; Hull, 24; Reading, 24; Bury St. Edmunds, 25; opinion of Sir E. Carson's speech, 133; at Ladybank, 154; Manchester, 166; policy on the Ulster Question, 167-170; on the Curragh Incident, 180, 182; Secretary of State for War, 184; promises an Amending Bill, 221; on the landing of arms, 221; at the Buckingham Palace Conference, 227; on the postponement of the Amending Bill, 228, 230; defence of Home Rule Bill, 235; in Dublin, 244; on the settlement of the Irish question, 245; on the national danger, 266
Attentive, H.M.S., 178
Austrian rifles, 198
Baird, J. D., at Belfast, 81
Balfour, Rt. Hon. A. J., at Belfast, 13, 81; on election tactics, 25; on exclusion of Ulster, 95; resigns leadership of the Unionist Party, 60; how regarded in Ulster, 61; message from, 115; the "peccant paragraphs," 181
Balfour, Lord, of Burleigh, signs the British Covenant, 170
Ballycastle, 193
Ballykinler, training camp, 237
Ballymacarret, 225
Ballymena, meeting at, 108
Ballymoney, meeting at, 158
Ballyroney, meeting at, 108
Balmoral, Belfast, meeting at, 79-86, 101
Barrie, H. T., 257
Bates, Richard Dawson, Secretary of the Ulster Unionist Council, 35, 121; organises demonstration, 111; on board a tender, 214; Minister for Home Affairs, 282; knighthood, 284
Bedford, Duke of, Chairman of the British League for the support of Ulster, 147
Belfast, 46; Convention of 1892, 32-34, 109; meetings at, 52, 78, 157; services on Ulster Day, 117: City Hall, 119, 283; Covenant signed, 119-122; drill hall, opened, 148; riots, 151; review of the Ulster Volunteer Force at, 163; Customs Authorities, stratagem against, 217; reception of the King and Queen, 283
Belfast Lough, 46, 175, 211, 212
Belfast Newsletter, 102 note, 111
Benn, Sir John, 53
Beresford, Lord Charles, at Belfast, 81, 109; at the Ulster Club, 125; Liverpool, 127; member of a Committee of the Provisional Government, 145
Birrell, Rt. Hon. Augustine, Chief Secretary for Ireland, on the character of Sinn Feinism, 4; at Ilfracombe, 54; on the Home Rule Bill, 96; the right to fight, 138; member of a sub-committee on Ulster, 175; conduct in the Irish rebellion, 243; character of his administration, 245
Blenheim, meeting at, 97 Boyne, the, 2; battle of, 115; celebration, 224
Bristol, 150, 166; Channel, 208
Britannic, H.M.S., 224
British Covenant, signing the, 170
British League for the support of Ulster and the Union, formation, 147
Browne, Robert, Managing Director of the Antrim Iron Ore Company, 193
Brunner, Sir John, President of the National Liberal Federation, 167
Buckingham Palace Conference, 227
Budden, Captain, 196
Budget, 19; "The People's," 20
"Budget League," formed, 20
Bull, Sir William, 195
Bury St. Edmunds, 25
Butcher, Sir J. G., at Belfast, 81
Cambridge, H.R.H. Duke of, 187
Cambridgeshire, election, 155
Campbell, James, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, 57, 95, 109
Canterbury, Dean of, signs the British Covenant, 170
Carlyle, Thomas, 137
Carrickfergus, military depot, 175, 176
Carson, Lady, at Belfast, 236, 284
Carson, Rt. Hon. Sir Edward, viii; accepts leadership, 39-41; political views, 41; at the Ulster Hall, 42, 108; at the Ulster Unionist Council meetings, 42, 246-248; relations with Lord Londonderry, 44, 53; on the Parliament Bill, 44; at the Craigavon meeting, 48-51, 210; character of his speaking, 48; at the Conference at Belfast, 52; at Dublin, 54; Portrush, 55; refuses leadership of Unionist Party, 60; meetings in Lancashire, 65; popularity, 66, 110, 148; at Belfast, 73, 157, 224-226, 257, 278; criticism of W. Churchill's speech, 74; on fiscal autonomy for Ire land, 77; at the Balmoral meeting, 81, 84; ovation, 85; attacks on, 87; on the Home Rule Bill, 90, 96; at the Londonderry House Conference, 94; on the resistance of Ulster, 98, 100; character of his leadership, 102; reads the Ulster Covenant, 105; tour of the Province, 110, 114; opinion of the Covenant, 111; presentation to, 115; speech on the Covenant, 116; at the service in the Ulster Hall, 118; at the City Hall, 120-124; signs the Covenant, 121; at Liverpool, 127; on the exclusion of Ulster, 133, 168; death of his wife, 148; at opening of drill hall, 148; in Scotland and England, 149; at Durham, 153; Chairman of the Central Authority, 156; Indemnity Guarantee Fund, 156; inspection of the Ulster Volunteer Force, 162, 164, 167, 223, 226; on the time limit for exclusion, 171; leaves the House of Commons, 173; on the plot against Ulster, 176; signs statement on the Curragh Incident, 186; interview with Major F. H. Crawford, 199, 210; congratulations from Lord Roberts, 220; at Ipswich, 222; at the Buckingham Palace Conference, 227; on the patriotism of Ulster, 231-233; tribute to B. Law, 236; second marriage, 236; tribute to Lord Londonderry, 241; appointed Attorney-General, 242; resignation, 242; on the Irish rebellion, 246; appointed First Lord of the Admiralty, 252; resignation, 263; reelected leader of the Ulster Party, 263; member of the Irish Unionist Alliance, 265; on the Military Service Bill, 270; letter to President Wilson, 273, 296-299; M.P. for Duncairn, 275; declines office, 275; on the Government of Ireland Act, 279; conclusion of his leadership, 280; Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, 284; unable to be present at the opening of the Ulster Parliament, 284
Casement, Sir Roger, 7, 158; in league with Germany, 243
Cassel, Felix, at Belfast, 81
Castlereagh, Viscount, 109, 230; at Belfast, 81; signs the Covenant, 121
Cave, Rt. Hon. George, 188; at Belfast, 81; letter to The Times, 152
Cecil, Lord Hugh, at Belfast, 81, 109; at the Balmoral meeting, 86; on the resistance of Ulster, 96
Chamberlain, Rt. Hon. Austen, candidate for the leadership of the Unionist Party, 60; message from, 115; at Skipton, 167; on the policy of the Government, 168
Chamberlain, Rt. Hon. Joseph, at Belfast, 13; views on Home Rule, 16, 128; tariff policy, 18; his advice to Sir E. Carson, 167
Chambers, James, signs the Covenant, 121
Chichester, Capt. the Hon. A. C., Commander in the Ulster Volunteer Force, 163
Childers, Mr. Erskine, on fiscal autonomy for Ireland, 76
China Expeditionary Force, 161
Chubb, Sir George Hayter, signs the British Covenant, 170
Churchill, Mrs., at Belfast, 73
Churchill, Lord Randolph, at Belfast, 13, 81; at the Ulster Hall meeting, 30, 40, 62; saying of, 31, 42; reception at Larne, 74; views on Home Rule, 128; Life of, 138
Churchill, Rt. Hon. Winston S., at Manchester, 19; Life of Lord Randolph Churchill, 30, 138; at Dundee, 54, 154; views on Home Rule. 62; projected visit to Belfast, 62-69; letter to Lord Londonderry, 69; change of plan, 69; reception at Belfast, 73; departure from, 74; on Home Rule, 95; letters on the Ulster menace, 99; on the resistance of Ulster, 138, 141; the policy of exclusion, 152; at Bradford, 172, 174, 175
Clark, Sir George, 156
Clogher, Bishop of, signs the Covenant, 122
Clydevalley, S.S., 211-213, 220; renamed, 214
Coleraine, meeting at, 108, 114 Comber, 82
Copeland Island, 212, 214, 220
Correspondence relating to Recent Events in the Irish Command, 185
Covenant, British, signing the, 170
Covenant, Ulster, draft, 104; terms, 105-107; series of demonstrations, 108-110; meeting in the Ulster Hall, 114; signing the, 120-124; anniversary, 158, 165, 236
Craig, Charles, 96, 147; serves in the war, 234; taken prisoner, 234
Craig, James, member of the Ulster Unionist Council, 35; meeting at Craigavon, 46; gift for organisation, 46; member of the Commission of Five, 53; on the resistance of Ulster, 96; draft of the Covenant, 103; organises the demonstration, 111; presentation of a silver key and pen to Sir E. Carson, 115; Indemnity Guarantee Fund, 156; at the reviews of the U.V.F., 162, 164, 223; at Bangor, 217; at the Buckingham Palace Conference, 228; appointed Q.M.G. of the Ulster Division, 234; Treasurer of the Household, 253; resignation, 263; baronetcy, 275; Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions, 275; Secretary to the Admiralty, 281; resignation, 281; Prime Minister of the Northern Parliament, 281
Craig, John, 103
Craig, Mrs., presents colours to the U.V.F., 223
Craigavon, meeting at, 45-51, 80, 105, 149, 210
Crawford, Colonel F. H., viii; signs the Covenant, 123, 191; Commander in the U.V.F., 163; characteristics, 190; career, 191; Secretary of the Reform Club, 191; advertises for rifles, 191; Director of Ordnance, 192; method of procuring arms, 192-200; schooner, 192; agreement with B. S., 197-200; interview with Sir E. Carson, 199, 210; voyage in S.S. Fanny, 202-210; conveys arms from Hamburg, 203-213; attack of malaria, 207; declines to obey unsigned orders, 209; at Belfast, 210; purchases S.S. Clydevalley, 211, 212; lands the arms, 214; at Rosslare, 220; awarded the O.B.E., 284
Crewe, Marq. of, 18, 23, 175; on the Amending Bill, 223
Cromwell, Oliver, 136
Crozier, Dr., Archbp. of Armagh, member of Provisional Government, 145
Crumlin, meeting at, 108
Curragh Incident, 174-189, 221
Curzon, Marq., on the Parliament Bill, 44; the Home Rule Bill, 134; the loyalty of Ulster, 141
Daily Express, The, 225
Daily Mail, The, 225
Daily Telegraph, The, 111, 225
D'Arcy, Dr., Primate of All Ireland, 118; signs the Covenant, 121
Darlington, 149
Davis, Jefferson, 137
Democracy, axiom of, 15
Derbyshire, election, 222
Derry, relief of, 13, 85; meeting at, 108; election, 144; riots, 151
Desborough, Lord, signs the British Covenant, 170
Devlin, Joseph, 6, 127, 172, 174, 275; with Mr. W. Churchill in Belfast, 63, 68; the Irish Convention, 261; on the Military Service Bill, 269; letter to President Wilson, 273, 287-295; demands self-determination, 277
Devonshire, 8th Duke of, views on Home Rule, 128, 134; on the resistance of Ulster, 136, 138; Life of, 136 note, 139 note.
Dicey, Prof., signs the British Covenant, 170
Dickson, Scott, at Belfast, 81; at the Balmoral meeting, 86
"Die Hards" party, 44
Dillon, John, 6, 174; at the Buckingham Palace Conference, 227; on the Irish Rebellion, 244; letter to Pres. Wilson, 273, 287-295
Donald, Thompson, letter to Pres. Wilson, 296-299
Doreen, S.S., 207, 210; at Lundy, 208
Dorset Regiment, transferred to Holywood, 177, 178
Dromore, meeting at, 108
Dublin, insurrection, 4, 243; Unionist demonstration at, 54; Nationalist Convention, meeting, 92; Congress in, 276
Dufferin and Ava, Dow. Marchioness of, 113
Duke, Rt. Hon. H. E., Chief Secretary for Ireland, 253
Duncairn, election, 275
Dundalk, 178
Dunleath, Lord, 156
Durham, Sir E. Carson at, 153
East Fife, 25
Edinburgh, 24, 101; Ulstermen sign the Covenant, 123; meeting at, 149; Philosophical Institution, lecture at the, 274
Edward VII, King, death, 23
Election, General, of 1886, 16; of 1895, 34; of Jan. 1910, 21, 22, 42; of Dec. 1910, 26; of 1918, 4
Elections, result of, 99, 155, 222
Enniskillen, meeting at, 108, 114; military depot, 175, 176
Erne, Earl of, member of the Ulster Unionist Council, 35; at the Craigavon meeting, 47; signs the Covenant, 122
Ewart, G. H., President of the Belfast Chamber of Commerce, 157
Ewart, Sir William, member of the Ulster Unionist Council, 35; signs the Covenant, 121
Fanny, S.S., voyage, viii, 202-213; alterations in her appearance, 206; rechristened, 207; transference of the cargo, 213
Farnham, Lord, at the Ulster Unionist Council meeting, 248, 279; Irish Unionist Alliance, 265
Ferguson, John, & Co., 196
Fiennes, Mr., at Belfast, 73
Finance Bill, rejected, 19
Finlay, Sir Robert, at Belfast, 81; at the Balmoral meeting, 86
Fishguard, 213
Flavin, Mr., on the Military Service Bill, 269
Fleming, Henry, letter to Pres. Wilson, 296-299
Flood, Henry, patriotism, 7
Freemason's Journal, The, 72, 287
French, F. M., Viscount, member of the Army Council, 176; resignation, 184; Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 272; attempt on his life, 277
Frewen, Miss, marriage, 236; see Carson
Friend, General, 177
Gambetta, Léon, 9
George V, King, Conference at Buckingham Palace, 228; opens the Ulster Parliament, 282, 286; reception in Belfast, 283
George, Rt. Hon. D. Lloyd, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Budget, 19; at Edinburgh, 24; on the exclusion of Ulster, 152; Anglo-German relations, 167, 201; opinion of Sir E. Carson's speech, 168; plot against Ulster, 174; at Ipswich, 222; the Buckingham Palace Conference, 227; Secretary of State for War, 245; negotiations for the settlement of the Irish question, 245, 247, 250; Prime Minister, 252; on Home Rule, 254; alternative proposals, 255; statement on the war, 266, 268; Military Service Bill, 268; letter to B. Law, 276 note; basic facts on the Irish Question, 277; Government of Ireland Act, 278
German rifles, 198
Gibson, T. H., Sec. of Ulster Unionist Council, 35; resignation, 35
Gilmour, Captain, at Belfast, 81
Gladstone, Rt. Hon. W. E., 138; on the character of the Nationalists, 5; conversion to Home Rule, 7, 12, 30; Home Rule Bills, 13, 16, 17; personality, 17
Glasgow, 22, 78; meeting at, 149
Goschen, Viscount, views on Home Rule, 16, 128
Goudy, Prof., signs the British Covenant, 170
Gough, General Sir Hugh, commanding the 3rd Cavalry Brigade, 180; at the War Office, 181; return to the Curragh, 181; driven back by the Germans, 270
Government of Ireland Act, 51, 278
Graham, John Washington, 194
Grattan, Henry, patriotism, 7
Greenwood, Sir Hamar, at Belfast, 73; Chief Secretary for Ireland, 285
Grey, Earl, on the Home Rule Bill, 134
Grey, Sir Edward, on the Home Rule Bill, 95; at Berwick, 154
Griffith, Arthur, arrested, 271; deported, 295
Griffith-Boscawen, Sir Arthur, at Belfast, 81
Grimsby, election, 222
Guest, Capt. Frederick, at Belfast, 72
Guinness, Walter, supports exclusion of Ulster, 95
Gun-barrel Proof Act, 196
Hall, Frank, 121
Halsbury, Earl of, 151
Hamburg, Col. Crawford at, 198
Hamilton, Lord Claud, at Belfast, 81; Provisional Government, 145
Hamilton, George C., M.P. for Altrincham, 155
Hamilton, Gustavus, Governor of Enniskillen, 48
Hamilton, Marq. of, interest in the Ulster Movement, 109; signs the Covenant, 122
Hammersmith Armoury, 195; seizure of arms at, 196
Hanna, J., 257
Harding, Canon, 158
Harland and Wolff, Messrs., 191
Harrison, Frederic, on the Ulster Question, 169
Hartington, Marq. of, views on Home Rule, 16
Health Insurance Act, 222
Healy, T. M., 18, 22; on the Military Service Bill, 270; letter to Pres. Wilson, 273, 287-295
Henry, Denis, member of the Ulster Unionist Council, 35
Hickman, Colonel Thomas, member of Provisional Government, 145; career, 160; letter from Lord Roberts, 161, 195
Hills, J. W., at Belfast, 81
Holland, Bernard, Life of the Eighth Duke of Devonshire, 136 note, 139 note
Home Rule, 23-29; a separatist movement, 7; memorial against, 155
Home Rule Bill, 13, 16, 17, 90-97, 131, 133, 149; political meetings, 97; under the "guillotine," 131; in the House of Lords, 134; rejected, 135; time limit for exclusion, 171; passed, 222, 224; receives the Royal Assent, 235
Home Rule Bill, Amending Bill, 221, 223, 227, 228, 230
Hull, Mr. Asquith at, 24
Ilfracombe, 54
Indemnity Guarantee Fund, subscriptions, 156, 163
Ipswich, election, 222
Ireland, two nations, 2, 84; rebellions, 6; animosity of rival creeds, 9; condition, 17, 19, 298; insurrection, 27; fiscal autonomy, 76-78; financial clauses of the Home Rule Bill, 91; prohibition of the importation of arms, 166; Easter Rebellion, 243; exemption from conscription, 268; German plot in, 271; agitation against conscription, 272; anarchy, 279
Ireland, Council of, 278
Ireland, Government of, Act, 2, 278-280
Ireland, Northern, Parliament, 280-282
Irish Convention, 255-262; members, 255, 257; Report, 264, 266
Irish News, The, 114
Irish Republican Army, system of terrorism, 277
Irish Republican Brotherhood, 243
Irish Unionist Alliance, 30, 265; co-operation with the Ulster Unionist Council, 37
Islandmagee, 218
Kelly, Sam, 209
Kelly, Thomas, letter to Pres. Wilson, 287-295
Kennedy, Sir Robert, member of Provisional Government, 145
Kettle, Prof. T. M., on fiscal autonomy for Ireland, 76
Kiel, 204
Kingstown, cruisers at, 178
Kipling, Rudyard, "Ulster 1912," 79, 129; signs the British Covenant, 170
Kitchener, F.-M. Earl, 230, 238
Kossuth, 136
Ladybank, Mr, Asquith at, 154
Lamlash, battleships at, 175
Lane-Fox, George, at Belfast, 81
Langeland, 204
Lansdowne, Marq. of, scheme of reform for the House of Lords, 24; on the Parliament Bill, 44; message from, 115; on the Ulster Question, 169; the Amending Bill, 223; at the Buckingham Palace Conference, 227
Law, Rt. Hon. A. Bonar, leader of Unionist Party, 28, 60; on Home Rule, 28, 131; at the Albert Hall, 71; on fiscal autonomy for Ireland, 78; at the Balmoral meeting, 80-86; reception at Larne, 81; his speech, 84; indictment against the Government, 90, 172, 174, 235; on the resistance of Ulster, 91, 95, 98; messages from, 115, 149; at Wallsend, 154; Bristol, 166; on the exclusion of Ulster, 169, 171; demands inquiry into the Curragh Incident, 185; on the Amending Bill, 222; at the Buckingham Palace Conference, 227; at Belfast, 236; tribute to, 236; at the Ulster Hall, 237; warning to the Nationalists, 255; on the Military Service Bill, 269, 271
Lecky, W. E. H., History of England in the Eighteenth Century, 274 note
Leeds, meeting at, 149
Leo XIII, Pope, 8
Leslie, Shane, Henry Edward Manning, 8 note
Liberal Party, policy, 16; victory in 1906, 18; majority, 19, 22; tactics, 20; number of votes, 22, 26; defeated in 1895, 34
Liddell, R. M. 156
Lincoln, Abraham, 40; saying of, 15
Linlithgow, election, 155
Liverpool, 127
Liverpool Daily Courier, The, extract from, 165
Liverpool Daily Post and Mercury, 159 note
Llandudno, 212
Lloyd, Mr. George, at Belfast, 81
Logue, Cardinal, 10
London School of Economics, conference at, 76
Londonderry House, conference at, 92, 94, 147
Londonderry, Marchioness of, member of the Ulster Women's Unionist Council, 37; on the Covenant, 112; presents colours to the U.V.F., 223; work in the war, 240
Londonderry, 6th Marq. of, viii; on Home Rule, 28; Ulster Unionist Council, 35; popularity, 43; character, 44; relations with Sir E. Carson, 44, 53; on the Parliament Bill, 44; Conference at Belfast, 52; at the Ulster Hall meeting, 62, 106, 108; the Ulster Unionist Council meetings, 65, 67; reply to W. Churchill, 69; at Belfast, 73; at the Balmoral meeting, 84; signs the Covenant, 121; at the Ulster Club, 125; Liverpool, 127; on the House of Lords, 134; President of the Ulster Unionist Council, 145; Indemnity Guarantee Fund, 156; at the reviews of the U.V.F., 164, 223; on the Curragh Incident, 186; on the Amending Bill, 223; at Enniskillen, 227; despondency, 240; death, 241; tribute to, 241
Londonderry, 7th Marq. of, viii; member of the Irish Convention, 257, 263; Under-Secretary of State in the Air Ministry, 275; resignation, 281; Minister of Education, 281
Long, Rt. Hon. Walter, 147; founder of the Union Defence League, 37; leader of the Irish Unionists, 38; at the Ulster Hall, 42; candidate for the leadership of the Unionist Party, 60; at Belfast, 81, 224; at the Balmoral meeting, 84, 86; the Londonderry House conference, 92; message from, 115; on the policy of the Government, 170; signs the British Covenant, 170; chairman of a Cabinet Committee on the Irish Question, 277
Lonsdale, Sir John B., member of the Ulster Unionist Council, 35; Hon. Sec. of the Irish Unionist Party, 39; signs Covenant, 122; Indemnity Guarantee Fund, 156; leader of the Ulster Party, 254; at Belfast, 257; raised to the peerage, 263; see Armaghdale
Lords, House of, rejection of the Home Rule Bill, 17, 135; of the Finance Bill, 19, 21; forced to accept the Parliament Bill, 27; position under the Parliament Act, 134; debates on the Home Rule Bill, 134
Loreburn, Lord, letters to The Times, 152, 165
Lough, Thomas, on fiscal autonomy for Ireland, 76
Lovat, Lord, signs the British Covenant, 170
Lowther, Rt. Hon. James, at the Buckingham Palace Conference, 227
Loyal Orange Institution, 31
Lundy, 208
Lyons, W. H. H. 35
Macdonnell, Lord, on fiscal autonomy for Ireland, 76
Mackinder, H. J., at Belfast, 81
Macnaghten, Sir Charles, member Provisional Government, 145
Macnaghten, Lord, Lord of Appeal, 140, 145; signs the Covenant, 122
MacNeill, John, letter to Pres. Wilson, 287-295
Mahan, Admiral, 130
Maine, Sir H., Popular Government, extract from, 14
Malcolm, Sir Ian, at Belfast, 81
Manchester, 77, 166; election, 99
Manchester Guardian, The, 166
Manning, Cardinal, on Home Rule, 8
Mary, H.M., Queen, at the opening of the Ulster Parliament, 282; reception in Belfast, 283
Massereene, Lady, presents colours to the Ulster Volunteer Force, 223
Massingham, Mr., 166
Masterman, Rt. Hon. C. F. G., 170, 222
Mazzini, 136
McCalmont, Col. James, Ulster Unionist Council, 35; Commander of a U.V.F regiment, 163
McCammon, Mr., 121
McDowell, Sir Alexander, criticism of the Ulster Covenant, 104
McMordie, Mr., Lord Mayor of Belfast, at the service in the Ulster Hall, 118; receives Sir E. Carson, 120; at the Ulster Club, 125
Meath election petition in 1892, 10
Melbourne, Lord, 136
Mersey, the, 127
Midleton, Earl of, at the Irish Convention, 260; supports Home Rule, 262; secedes from the Irish Unionist Alliance, 265
Midlothian, election, 99
Military Service Act, ii., 268-272
Milner, Viscount, signs the British Covenant, 170; on the Amending Bill, 223
Moles, Thomas, viii; Chairman of Committee in the Northern Parliament, 282
Molyneux, patriotism, 7
Montgomery, B. W. D., Secretary of the Ulster Club, 103
Montgomery, Dr., 118
Montgomery, Major-Gen., member of Provisional Government, 145
Moore, William, Ulster Unionist Council, 35; on the amendment to the Home Rule Bill, 96; exclusion of Ulster, 168
Morley, Viscount, Life of Gladstone, 17; on the resistance of Ulster, 154; helps Colonel Seely to draft the "peccant paragraphs," 181, 183
Morning Post, The, 79, 225, 229, 283 note
Motu Proprio, vatican decree, 11
Mountjoy II, S.S., cargo landed at Larne, 214, 218
Moyle, the, 193
Musgrave, Henry, 156
Nation, The, 158
National Insurance Bill, 53
Nationalist Party, in the House of Commons, 22, 26: attitude on the war, 267; opposition to conscription, 269-273
Nationalists, the, compared with the Ulster Uniomists, 2; disloyalty, 4-6; policy, 6, 78, 141, 142; ancestry, 8; demand dissolution of the Union, 14; attitude on the war, 231, 233, 252; members of the Irish Convention, 256-262; letter to Pres. Wilson, 273, 287-295; demand "self-determination," 291, 298
Nationality, root of, 2; plea of 14, 15
Nec Temere, Vatican decree, 11
Neild, Herbert, at Belfast, 81
Newcastle, 149, 153; training camp, 237
Newman, Cardinal, 5
Newry, 177
Newtownards, 225; meeting at, 108, 114
Nineteenth Century, The, 183 note, 239 note
Nonconformists, 9; opposition to Home Rule, 155
Northcliffe, Viscount, 225
Norwich, Ulster members at, 150
O'Brien, William, 22; on the Military Service Bill, 270; letter to Pres. Wilson, 273, 287-295
Observer, The, 84, 115 note, 225
O'Connell, Daniel, 7
O'Connor, T. P., 127, 174, 275; on Home Rule, 253
Omagh, military depot, 175, 176
Omash, Miss, viii
O'Neill, Capt. Hon. Arthur, 230; killed in the war, 241, 253
O'Neill, Major Hugh, serves in the war, 242; Speaker of the Northern Parliament, 282
O'Neill, Hugh, Earl of Tyrone, 7
O'Neill, Laurence, Lord Mayor of Dublin, letter to Pres. Wilson, 273, 287-295
O'Neill, Hon. R. T., member of the Ulster Unionist Council, 35
Ormsby-Gore, Capt. the Hon. W. G. A., at Belfast, 81
O'Shea, divorce, 17
Paget, Sir Arthur, Commander-in-Chief in Ireland, letter from Colonel Seely, 175; in London, 176; interviews with Ministers, 177; instructions from the War Office, 178, 180; conference with his officers, 179, 185; on the employment of troops in Ulster, 186
Parliament, assembled, 23, 131, 167; dissolved, 23, 275; adjourned, 99
Parliament Act, 23, 27, 43-45, 53, 91
Parliamentary Debates, viii, 29 note, 142, 179 note, 181 note, 185 note
Parnell, Charles, saying of, 6; leader of the Nationalist Party, 6; downfall, 17
Pathfinder, H.M.S., 178
Patriotic, R.M.S., 128
Peel, Sir Robert, 138
Peel, W., at Belfast, 81 "People's Budget," 20; rejection, 42
Percival-Maxwell, Col., Privy Councillor, 284
Phoenix Park murders, 243
Pirrie, Lord, unpopularity in Belfast, 63; peerage conferred, 284
Pitt, Rt. Hon. William, 15
Plunkett, Sir Horace, Chairman of the Irish Convention, 257, 261; letter to Lloyd George, 284
Pollock, Sir Ernest, at Belfast, 81
Pollock, H. M., member of the Irish Convention, 257, 262
Portadown, meeting at, 108, 114
Portland, Duke of, signs the British Covenant, 170
Presbyterian Church, General Assembly of the, 155
Presbyterians, political views, 12
Preston, George, subscription to the Indemnity Guarantee Fund, 156
Prisoners, release of, 256
Protestants, Irish, distrust of Roman Catholics, 9; dislike of clerical influence, 10
Ramsay, Sir W., signs the British Covenant, 170
Ranfurly, Earl of, organises the Ulster Loyalist Union, 30, 37; member of the Unionist Council, 35
Raphoe, Bishop of, member of the Irish Convention, 258, 260-262
Rawlinson, J. F. P., at Belfast, 81
Reade, R. H. 35
Reading, Mr. Asquith at, 24; election, 155
Redistribution Act, 275
Redmond, Capt., 275
Redmond, John, 174; on the national movement, 7; policy, 22; on Home Rule, 27, 54; with Mr. W. Churchill in Belfast, 63, 68; opinion of Sir E. Carson's speech, 133; protests against Amending Bill, 222; at Buckingham Palace Conference, 227; conditional offer of help in the war, 231, 233; tribute to, 239; patriotism, 239; refuses office, 242; at Dublin, 249; on the exclusion of Ulster, 250; manifesto, 254; at the Irish Convention, 260-262; death, 262; on the condition of Ireland, 298
Redmond, Major W., his speech in the House, 253; killed in the war, 253
Reform Club, Belfast, 122, 124, 191
Reid, Whitelaw, 274
Renan, E., on the root of nationality, 2
Reynolds's Newspaper, 89
Richardson, Gen. Sir George, Commander-in-Chief of the U.V.F., 161, 197; career, 161; characteristics, 162; at Belfast, 162, 217; reviews the U.V.F., 163-165
Rifles, seized by Government, 161, 195; purchase of, 198; packing, 201; landed in Ulster, 219
Roberts, F.-M. Earl, 130, 188; letter to Col. Hickman, 161, 195; signs British Covenant, 170; congratulations to Sir E. Carson, 220; on the result of coercing Ulster, 224
Robertson, Rt. Hon. J. M., Secretary to the Board of Trade, on fiscal autonomy for Ireland, 76; at Newcastle, 153
Rochdale, Unionist Association at, 99
Roe, Owen, 7
Roman Catholics, Irish, disloyalty 9; character of the priest, 10; methods of enforcing obedience, 10-12
Rosebery, Earl of, 15, 18; at Glasgow, 22; on the characteristics of the Ulster race, 101
Rosslare, 220
Royal Irish Rifles, the 5th, 57
Russia, collapse of, 268
Russian rifles, 198
S. B., the Hebrew dealer in firearms, 197; agreement with Major F. H. Crawford, 197-200; honesty, 204
St. Aldwyn, Viscount, on the King's Prerogative, 151
Salisbury, Marq. of, at Belfast, 13, 81; message from, 109; views on Home Rule, 128
Salvidge, Mr., Alderman of Liverpool, 127, 128; signs the British Covenant, 170
Samuel, Mr. Herbert, at Belfast, 54
Sanderson, Colonel, Chairman of the Ulster Parliamentary Party, 35, 38
Saturday Review, The, extract from, 70
Sclater, Edward, Secretary of the Unionist Clubs, 53
Scotland, the Covenant, 103
Scotsman, The, 101, 225, 274 note
Seely, Col. Sec. of State for War, letter to Sir A. Paget, 175; statement to Gen. Gough, 181; adds paragraphs, 181, 183; on the Curragh Incident, 182; resignation, 183, 184
Seymour, Adm. Sir E., signs British Covenant, 170
Sharman-Crawford, Col., member of the Ulster Unionist Council, 35; of the Commission of Five, 53
Shaw, Lord, Letters to Isabel, 18 note
Shiel Park, meeting at, 128
Shipyards, observance of Ulster Day, 117
Shortt, Rt. Hon. E., Chief Secretary for Ireland, 272
Simon, Sir John, 175
Sinclair, Rt. Hon. Thomas, at the Ulster Convention, 33; member of the Ulster Unionist Council, 35, 67; on Home Rule, 38; member of a Commission, 53; on the Covenant, 104, 109; signs it, 121
Sinn Fein party, refuse to join the Convention, 255; in league with Germany, 271, 276; arrests, 271; members of Parliament, 275, 276; treason of, 276; congress in Dublin, 276; outrages, 277
Sinn Feinism, spirit of, 4
Skipton, 167
Smiley, Kerr, 156
Smith, Rt. Hon. F. E. (Lord Birkenhead), on the policy of Ulster, 97, 98; on the Covenant, 109; at the Ulster Club, 125; at Liverpool, 127; at the inspection of the U.V.F., 162; "galloper" to Gen. Sir G. Richardson, 163
Smith, Mr. Harold, 109
Solemn League and Covenant, 104; see Ulster
Somme, battle of the, 234
Spectator, The, 225
Spender, Col. W. Bliss, U.V.F., 197, 203, 207, 215; awarded the O.B.E., 284
Star, The, extract from, 89
Stronge, Sir James, member of the Ulster Unionist Council, 35
Stuart-Wortley, Mr., at Belfast, 81
Submarine warfare, 253
Suffragists' campaign, 167
Swift, patriotism, 7
Tariff Reform policy, 18, 19; controversy, 59, 155, 167
Templetown, Lord, founds the Unionist Clubs, 30, 31
Thiepval, battle at, 234
Times, The, 32, 64, 69, 71, 77, 79, 82, 84, 99, 110, 115, 124, 126, 139, 140, 153, 172, 182, 187, 225; letters in, 152, 165
Tirah Expedition, 161
Tramp steamer, diverts suspicion, 217
Turkington, James A., letter to Pres. Wilson, 296-299
Tyrone, contingent of Orangemen, 57
Ulster, use of the term, vii; opposition to Home Rule, 1, 2, 30; loyalty, 2-4, 33, 63, 139-143, 251; ancestry, 8; political views, 12; landlords and tenants, 12; mottoes, 13, 33; reluctant acceptance of a separate constitution, 14; organisations, 30-38; policy, 33, 51, 75, 77, 92, 93-100, 133, 136-143; military drilling, 57; characteristics of the people, 101; time limit for exclusion, 171; plot against, 174; emigrants in America, 274, 297; result of the Government of Ireland Act, 280
Ulster, British League for the support of, formed, 147
Ulster Club, Belfast, 125
Ulster, Convention of 1892, 80, 109
Ulster Covenant, draft, 104; terms, 105-107; series of demonstrations, 108-110; meeting in the Ulster Hall, 114; signing the, 120-124; anniversary, 158, 165, 236
Ulster Day, 165, 236; religious observance, 107, 117
Ulster Division, 1st Brigade, training, 237; recruiting, 238
Ulster Hall, 283; meetings, 30, 38, 40, 42, 62, 106, 108, 114, 237; service, 118, 158
Ulster Loyalist Anti-Repeal Union, 37
Ulster Loyalist and Patriotic Union, 30
Ulster Parliament, appointment of Ministers, 281-2; opened, 282-6
Ulster Provisional Government, 53, 145, 156, 163; judiciary, 146; constitution, 226
Ulster Unionist Clubs, founded, 30-1
Ulster Unionist Council, vii, 35; meetings, 27, 42, 52, 62, 65-67, 106, 145, 156, 210, 226, 236, 246-249, 279; members, 35, 36; co-operation with the Irish Unionist Alliance, 37; resolution adopted, 68-71; character, 75; scheme for the Provisional Government, 145; statement on the Curragh Incident, 186
Ulster Unionist Members of Parliament, 38; tour in Scotland and England, 149
Ulster Unionists, letter to Pres. Wilson, 273, 296-299
Ulster Volunteer Force, 58, 113, 137, 160; Indemnity Guarantee Fund, 156, 163; growth, 160; parades, 162, 163-165, 167, 223, 226; strength, 168; arming the, 192-200, 223; organisation, 215; despatch-riders' corps, 215; trial mobilisation, 216; presentation of colours, 223; volunteer for service in the war, 229; organisation and training of the Division, 234
Ulster Women's Unionist Association, work of the, 166
Ulster Women's Unionist Council, formed, 37; meeting, 113
"Ulster 1912," Rudyard Kipling's, 79, 129
"Ulster's Reward," William Watson's, 129
Union Defence League, in London, 37
Unionist Associations of Ireland, joint committee, 37
Unionist Party, administration, 18, 20; defeated, 18; number of votes, 22, 26, 99; dissensions on Tariff Reform, 59; members at Belfast, 81
Unionists, Southern manifesto, 265; Committee formed, 265; result of the Government Act, 282
Valera, E. De, M.P. for East Clare, 256; arrested, 277; deported, 295
Vatican decrees, 11
Vickers & Co., Messrs., 194
Victoria, Queen, 136
Wallace, Col. R. H., member of the Ulster Unionist Council, 35; member of a Commission, 53; Grand Master of the Belfast Lodges, 57; popularity, 57; career, 57; applies for leave to drill, 58; at the Ulster Unionist Council meeting, 67, 72; presentation of a banner to Sir E; Carson, 115; Command in the U.V.F., 163, 164; Privy Councillor, 284
Wallsend, 154
Walter, Mr. John, 225
War Office, treatment of Gen. Gough, 181
Ward, Lieut.-Col. John, on the Curragh Incident, 182; "The Army and Ireland," 183 note, 238
Warden, F. W., 72 note
Watson, Sir William, "Ulster's Reward," 129
Waziri Expedition, 161
Westminster Gazette, 114; cartoon, 87
Whig Revolution of 1688, 31
White Paper, 175 note, 176 note, 177 note, 178 note, 179 note, 180 note, 181 note, 185, 187 note, 188
William III, King, banner, 115
Willoughby de Broke, Lord, 109
Wilson, President, letter from the Nationalists, 273, 287-295; from the Unionists, 273, 296-299; phrase of "self-determination," 277
Wimborne, Lord, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, resignation, 272
Wolff, G. 35
Wolseley, Viscount, 187
Women's Unionist Council, Ulster, formed, 37; meeting, 113
Workman and Clark, Messrs., 214
Workman, Frank, 157
Wynyard, Lord Londonderry's death at, 241
Yarmouth, 207
York, 149
York, Archbp. of, on the Home Rule Bill, 134
Young, Rt. Hon. John, member of the Ulster Unionist Council, 35; at the meeting, 67; takes part in the campaign, 109; signs the Covenant, 122
Young, W. R., organises the Ulster Loyalist and Patriotic Union, 30, 37; signs the Covenant, 122; Privy Councillor, 284
Zhob Valley Field Force, expedition, 161
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Ronald McNeill provides a truly fascinating account of the Home Rule Crisis of 1912 from a Unionist perspective. The book covers, inter alia, the formation of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), the drafting and signing of the Solemn League and Covenant, gun-running to Larne and Donaghadee, Ulster in the Great War, and the establishment of the Ulster Parliament in 1921.
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