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The Ulster crisis : resistance to Home Rule, 1912-1914 / A. T. Q. Stewart.
Van Pelt Library DA990.U46 S782 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stewart, A. T. Q. (Anthony Terence Quincey), 1929-2010.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)--Politics and government.
- Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland).
- Carson, Edward, Sir, 1854-1935.
- Carson, Edward.
- Ireland--Politics and government--1910-1921.
- Ireland.
- Politics and government.
- Home rule--Ireland.
- Home rule.
- Physical Description:
- 284 pages : map ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Belfast : Blackstaff Press, 1997.
- Summary:
- In the years immediately preceding the First World War, Britain faced its gravest political crisis since the days of Cromwell and Charles I. Britain's Liberal government was determined to grant Home Rule to Ireland. To prevent this, the Conservative opposition was willing to jeopardize the Constitution. And in the north of Ireland, a citizen army of 100,000 Ulster Protestants, led by Edward Carson and armed with smuggled German rifles, prepared to resist by force any attempt to eject them from the United Kingdom. Thus was born the UVF -- Ulster Volunteer Force -- which is sometimes described as the "Protestant's secret army".
- Notes:
- Originally published: London: Faber, 1967.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-272) and index.
- ISBN:
- 085640599X
- OCLC:
- 37946834
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