Ulster Unionist Party

Now, these Volunteers were formed in response to the formation of the Ulster Volunteer in 1913. The Ulster Volunteers were founded by Protestant Unionists in the north. Indeed, their goal was to stop the enactment of the Home Rule Devolution. Act. Incidentally, the Ulster Volunteers were mainly against the Irish Volunteers because they consisted of Catholics that wanted to be independent from British rule. Meanwhile, the Ulster Volunteers wanted to stay under British rule (Irish Volunteers). In

In the Film The Boxer, the main character Danny, a catholic boxer in Northern Ireland, gets caught up in the conflict between the Irish Nationalists and the Unionists and Loyalists known as “The Troubles”. He spends fourteen years in prison for un-specified charges and is released into an Ireland still embroiled in the same conflict. Having learned that nothing good comes from the segregation and hate that keeps the two sides at odds, he opens a boxing gym that is “non-sectarian” and allows kids

(IRB) was established in 1858 and worked for the armed expulsion of the British, where the Home Rule Party worked for the political expulsion. In 1912, the British passed a Home Rule Bill, which gave the Irish political autonomy, but the bill was never enacted due to the breakout of World War I in 1914. In 1913, two organizations, the nationalist Irish Volunteers (IV) and unionist (pro-British) Ulster Volunteers (UV) were founded in Dublin and Belfast, respectively, and the IV absorbed the IRB. The

used very frequently; Isaac Butt was the gentleman who founded this association. In 1873 this became known as the Home Rule League and in 1874 a general election was held where fifty home rulers were elected to the Home Rule party also known as the Irish Parliamentary Party (Irish 29). Butts ' goal was to get both Protestants and Catholics to support Home Rule as a movement targeted towards giving Ireland a federal government within the United Kingdom. Butt was not an aggressive leader and the

Introduction The independence of Scotland, a current affair and highly interesting topic. In this paper I will not be discussing the current political arrangements between Scotland and England nor will I be discussing what can be expected of the true separation of Scotland from the U.K. in the future. In this paper I will research what led up to the citizens of Scotland to feel so culturally different from the rest of the U.K. Why they do not want to be a completely united country anymore. I will

Kate Kelly, 13455112. What effect did the First World War have on the emergence of Australia and Ireland as independent nation states? The First World War was a crucial episode in the history of both modern Australia and modern Ireland. Today, we will look at how both Australia and Ireland each responded to the outbreak of this war, and at some of the battles in which these nations fought. We will examine the impact that the First World War had upon both Australian and Irish society at the time,

the Causes of the Civil War, 1922 John Redmond became the leader of the Home rule party when the English election was a draw. Neither the conservatives nor liberals got a majority. Redmond and the home rule party now held the balance of power. The leader of the liberals, Asquith, promised Redmond in 1910 that Ireland would have home rule by 1914. Redmond accepted. The unionists refused to accept and decided to fight against it. They got 2 great leaders, Edward Carson

The Northern Ireland Marching Season The marching season is where the Protestants of Ireland celebrate William of Orange's victory in the Battle of the Boyne by marching through Northern Ireland via some Catholic areas. These marches take place in July of every year and are usually peaceful. But sometimes they are violent. There are a number of possible reasons why there is a tension between the two communities over the marches, for example land, religion, politics

15, 1998 in Omagh, Northern Ireland. On that day 29 people were killed and around 220 were wounded. Among the dead was a woman who was 8 months pregnant with twins. A false warning was issued 30 minutes before the bomb went off to Ulster Television in Belfast. Law enforcement officials moved people away from the location of the warning, only to have moved them closer to the actual location, causing even more injury (Omagh). The public was so outraged with the bombing

the Irish Nationalists. The British parliament tried to combat this by setting up a convention which lasted about a year before Sinn Fein stopped it. In the general election of 1918 Sinn Fein won 73 seats and the Nationalists 7 and Ulster 23. In January 1919 Sinn Fein members assembled in Dublin as the ‘Dáil Éireann’ with Eamon de Valera their president proclaiming Ireland’s independence which demonstrated their commitment to the cause of freeing Ireland from British rule