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Ronald McNeill. Ulster's Stand For Union
Ulster's Stand For Union
Table of Contents
PREFACE
ULSTER'S STAND FOR UNION
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION: THE ULSTER STANDPOINT
CHAPTER II
THE ELECTORATE AND HOME RULE
CHAPTER III
ORGANISATION AND LEADERSHIP
CHAPTER IV
THE PARLIAMENT ACT: CRAIGAVON
CHAPTER V
THE CRAIGAVON POLICY AND THE U.F.V
CHAPTER VI
MR. CHURCHILL IN BELFAST
CHAPTER VII
"WHAT ANSWER FROM THE NORTH?"
CHAPTER VIII
THE EXCLUSION OF ULSTER
CHAPTER IX
THE EVE OF THE COVENANT
CHAPTER X
THE SOLEMN LEAGUE AND COVENANT
CHAPTER XI
PASSING THE BILL
CHAPTER XII
WAS RESISTANCE JUSTIFIABLE?
CHAPTER XIII
PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT AND PROPAGANDA
CHAPTER XIV
LORD LOREBURN'S LETTER
CHAPTER XV
PREPARATIONS AND PROPOSALS
CHAPTER XVI
THE CURRAGH INCIDENT
CHAPTER XVII
ARMING THE U.V.F
CHAPTER XVIII
A VOYAGE OF ADVENTURE
CHAPTER XIX
ON THE BRINK OF CIVIL WAR
CHAPTER XX
ULSTER IN THE WAR
CHAPTER XXI
NEGOTIATIONS FOR SETTLEMENT
CHAPTER XXII
THE IRISH CONVENTION
CHAPTER XXIII
NATIONALISTS AND CONSCRIPTION
CHAPTER XXIV
THE ULSTER PARLIAMENT
APPENDIX A
NATIONALIST LETTER TO PRESIDENT WILSON
To THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
APPENDIX B
UNIONIST LETTER TO PRESIDENT WILSON
To THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
INDEX
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Ronald McNeill
Published by Good Press, 2019
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If the Union with Great Britain was to be abrogated, which Pitt had only established when "a full measure of Home Rule" had produced a bloody insurrection and Irish collusion with England's external enemies, Ulster could at all events in the last resort take her stand on Abraham Lincoln's famous proposition which created West Virginia: "A minority of a large community who make certain claims for self-government cannot, in logic or in substance, refuse the same claims to a much larger proportionate minority among themselves."
The Loyalists of Ulster were successful in holding this second line, when the first was no longer tenable; but they only retired from the first line—the maintenance of the legislative union—after a long and obstinate defence which it is the purpose of the following pages to relate.
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