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	Ulster Covenant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The signers were Ulster loyalists, who were against the establishment of an Irish parliament in Dublin.
		The Ulster Covenant is immortalised in Rudyard Kipling`s poem Ulster 1912.
		The Ulster Covenant – revisited by Harry Smith
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ulster_Day (229 words)

	Ulster Covenant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ulster Covenant was signed by hundreds of thousands of men all over Ulster, Ireland, on and before September 28, 1912, in protest of a Home Rule bill introduced by the British government in that same year.
		The Covenant had two basic parts: the Covenant itself, which was signed by men, and the Declaration, which was signed by women.
		And further, we individually declare that we have not already signed this Covenant.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ulster_Covenant (229 words)

	Ulster Society - Ulster Covenant - Religion
		At the root of Ulster's protest lay a sense of immediate danger, immediate danger to the traditional freedom of conscience enjoyed by Protestants and central to their way of life and thinking.
		Many of the services thundered forth what was already almost Ulster's national anthem, "O God Our Help in Ages Past," amid a rich mixture of emotions: faith in God; faith in the justice of their cause; faith in their shared experiences as a people; faith in one another.
		Before the signing of the Covenant started in Belfast, a religious service was held in the Ulster Hall with representatives of the Presbyterian, Anglican, Methodist and Congregational Churches all participating.
	www.ulstersociety.org /resources/home_rule/religion.html (574 words)

	Ulster Society - Ulster Covenant Document
		The Presbyterians, with their tradition of sturdy independence, the very backbone of Ulster Unionism, were well acquainted with the concept of the solemn covenant in the religious history of Scotland in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
		The Covenant text was the inspired creation of one man, Thomas Sinclair, a wealthy Belfast merchant, a convinced Presbyterian, a son of the twin traditions of the British Whigs and the American Revolution with their emphasis on human rights and ultimate freedom of action.
		The 218,206 men who signed the Covenant in Ulster were offered a souvenir of their commitment, a copy on parchment paper of the famous text.
	www.ulstersociety.org /resources/home_rule/document.html (511 words)

	Men Of The Right Stuff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		This document was known as the Ulster Covenant and it was based on the old Scottish solemn league and covenant of 1580, which established the principals of Presbyterianism in Scotland.
		This identification with the historical Scottish covenant was not merely symbolic, but representative of the close links existing between many people in both countries since the time of Plantation of Ulster by Scottish settlers.
		Ulster will fight and Ulster will be right!!!!!’ The leading figure behind the formation of the U.V.F. in Glasgow seems to have been the Rev. James Brisby.
	www.greengairsthistle.com /rightstuff.htm (1891 words)

	REED FAMILY HISTORY
		The inhabitants of the Province of Ulster who were immigrants from lowland Scotland migrated to their new Irish homesteads in the early 17th century in extended family groups.
		In the case of the several families named "Reed" who left Ulster in the early 18th century to settle in Pennsylvania Province, the situation is particularly daunting.
		Ulster Scots had very limited rights to participate in government and to serve in the military.
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	lion&lamb: Back Issue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Clearly the Ulster Covenant drew on the older Scottish tradition of covenanting.
		Ulster Protestants did not need the significance of religious belief for political life explained to them, they understood it perfectly well.
		Ulster Protestants had helped to build this Empire and had benefited from it, not least in the industrialisation of the North East and the Lagan Valley in particular.
	www.econi.org /LionLamb/024/norule.html (2960 words)

	Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland Grand Orange Lodge
		It arranged a meeting in the Ulster Hall, in February, 1886, at which the main speaker was Lord Randolph Churchill.
		The decision was taken to appoint a commission to draft a constitution for the Provisional Government of Ulster in the event of the passing of the Bill.
		Covenant signing day was set for 28 September, and prior to that date a series of demonstrations were held throughout the province in which the objects of the Covenant were explained.
	www.grandorange.org.uk /history/Fight_For_Union.html (1480 words)

	Ulster-Scots Agency (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Theologians and Biblical scholars point out that the concept of a covenant is one of the fundamental theological motifs of the Hebrew and Christian scriptures, with divine promise on one hand and human obligations on the other.
		Interestingly, the Hebrew word for covenant seems to have the root meaning of ‘bond’ or ‘fetter’, denoting a binding relationship.
		On 23 September 1911, at the huge anti-Home Rule demonstration in the grounds of Craigavon, James Craig’s house in east Belfast, Sir Edward Carson, the new Unionist leader, told his audience that he was entering into ‘a compact’, or bargain, with them.
	www.ulsterscotsagency.com /LOW_ulstercovenant.asp (184 words)

	St. Paul's Church Defenders LOL 1960
		Ulster's Solemn League And Covenant is signed at a rally in Raphoe.
		The Ulster Unionists recognised the important role to be played by women and so a revised version of the covenant was issued for them to sign on Ulster Day.
		A meeting of the Ulster Unionist Council in Belfast's Ulster Hall at the height of the crisis.
	www.lol.1960.50megs.com /photo.html (538 words)

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		The rebels of Ulster at one time tried to identify their cause with that of Charles I by producing a forged commission from the king--which annoyed the Royalists and made the Parliamentary party all the more bitter.
		Ulster had shown sympathy with Republican ideas at the time of the American War of Independence; and now a large number of the Presbyterians of Belfast eagerly accepted the doctrines of Jacobinism.
		Ulster had now for some time been in a state bordering on anarchy; not only were the secret societies constantly at war, but marauding bands, pretending to belong to one or other of the societies, were ravishing the country.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/3/1/5/13157/13157.txt (16833 words)

	ULSTER DAY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Covenant showed that Ulster loyalists would vote against home rule for Ireland but that they would fight to resist Dublin rule over Ulster, or at least the parts of Ulster they could control.
		As we have argued elsewhere, Ulster Day was in effect our independence day, the day Ulster reasserted its distinct identity from the rest of this island.
		The Ulster Unionist Council officially brought the UVF into being in January 1913 when it recruited men who had signed the Covenant to resist Dublin rule by all means necessary.
	www.ulsternation.org.uk /ulster_day2002.htm (1013 words)

	Sir Edward Carsons
		As early as 1904, the many strands of Unionism in Ulster had come together to fight for "consistent and continuous political action" to resist Home Rule.
		In 1912, many people in Ulster had signed the Ulster Covenant which stated quite clearly that they would reject any form of Home Rule whilst promising loyalty to the king.
		In response to the increase in tension that followed the whole issue of the Covenant, the Irish Citizen Army was created by James Connolly.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /sir_edward_carsons.htm (399 words)

	The Ulster Covenant > Introduction
		The archive of the Ulster Unionist Council, held by the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI), contains just under half a million original signatures and addresses of the men who, on 28 September 1912, signed the Ulster Covenant, and of the women who signed the parallel Declaration.
		In total, the Covenant was signed by 237,368 men, and the Declaration by 234,046 women.
		Previously the Covenant was difficult and very time-consuming to access and, consequently, it was under-used.
	www.proni.gov.uk /ulstercovenant (123 words)

	Treat of the experience of Unionists in County Donegal during the period 1919-22
		Thus it was that a crucial political drama was acted out within the Ulster Unionist Council during the months of April and May of 1920; a drama which split the Unionist cause in two, and which resulted in the breaking of Ulster’s Solemn League and Covenant of 1912.
		Thus, despite two meetings, and the resignations of many six-county members, such as Brig-Gen Ricardo of Sion Mills, in sympathy with the 3 county unionists, the Combined UCC of Cavan, Monaghan and Donegal was forced effectively to resign from the UCC after being decisively outvoted by 301 votes to 80.
		It was in Ulster that the clash was most keenly felt, and Donegal was potentially a key flashpoint; representing as it did the farthest outposts of Unionist strength in the west of the Province.
	reform.org /TheReformMovement_files/article_files/articles/donegal.htm (4432 words)

	Look NI - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Ulster's vibrant towns and cities are pulsating with life.
		There are plenty of sightseeing opportunities in Ulster, and it is best to begin with a visit to any Tourist Office.
		If you are planning a visit to Ulster then you will find this web site invaluable.
	www.lookni.com (388 words)

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		Landscapes of south Ulster: a parish atlas of the diocese of Clogher.
		For Ulster and her Freedom: the story of the April 1914 gunrunning.
		Ulster Biographies relating to the Rebellion of 1798.
	www.btinternet.com /~d.a.rowlinson/newbooks.txt (13605 words)

	Humbul full record view for -- The Ulster covenant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Ulster Covenant web site provides access to a digitised version of the document signed in 1912 protesting against the Irish Home Rule bill.
		Organised by the Ulster Unionists under Sir Edward Carson, the Ulster Covenant and the parallel Declaration were signed by just under half a million people, providing a useful genealogical resource as well as an important historical document.
		The Covenant and parallel Declaration are searchable by name, address, parliamentary division, district, place of signing, and agent in charge, enabling very specific returns.
	www.humbul.ac.uk /output/full2.php?id=10157 (197 words)

	The Ulster Covenant
		The Ulster Covenant was signed by over 500,000 people.
		The Ulster Covenant, combined with the creation of the Ulster Volunteers, seemed to many to signify Ireland’s drift towards civil war.
		Those who signed the Ulster Covenant were against Home Rule and all that it stood for.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /ulster_covenant.htm (114 words)

	020930f-cal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Culture Minister, Michael McGimpsey MLA, today said that making the details contained in the Ulster Covenant more accessible would give a huge boost to both cultural tourism and genealogical research.
		The Minister was speaking at a press preview of the Ulster Covenant Digitisation Project, currently underway at Northern Ireland’s Public Record Office, where the original signatures are held.
		Mr McGimpsey said that the signing of the Covenant on Ulster Day, 28 September 1912, was a defining moment in Northern Ireland’s history.
	www.nics.gov.uk /press/cal/020930f-cal.htm (277 words)

	UlsterShopper.Net - Northern Irelands On-Line Shopping Resource
		Culture Minister, Michael McGimpsey, today said that making the details contained in the Ulster Covenant more accessible would give a huge boost to both cultural tourism and genealogical research.
		The Minister was speaking at a preview of the Ulster Covenant Digitisation Project, currently underway at Northern Ireland’s Public Record Office, where the original signatures are held.
		He said: “This, along with the fact that women also signed a parallel Declaration, makes the Covenant a rich source of material to anyone interested in genealogical or sociological research.
	www.ulstershopper.co.uk /industrynews.asp?ID=7160 (434 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Northern Ireland \| Covenant website dispels myths
		The Public Records Office in Belfast has put every signature of the Ulster Covenant into a searchable database.
		Newspapers at the time reported a frenzy as people queued on 28 September 1912 to sign what was described as "a solemn and binding oath of resistance to Home Rule".
		Many were reported to have signed the Covenant using their own blood.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/northern_ireland/2930986.stm (312 words)

	N.Ireland and Wales
		The irony is that Ulster protestants were the original strong advocates of a republic in Ireland, but chose not to be in the one that emerged because of the violence of its politics - a choice vindicated in the civil war in the 1920's.
		Ulster protestants were strong advocates of a republic until the Act of Union in the 1800`s.The brit state then encouraged sectarianism by religous and economic discrimination of catholics,classic divide and rule.By the early 1900`s the Ulster scots were organising against any form of home rule the covenant below was before the Easter uprising.
		It was rejected by the Lords twice in 1913 but finally got the Royal Assent to become law on 18 September, 1914.
	ctd.6.forumer.com /a/nireland-and-wales_post321-0.html (1693 words)

	Re-Imagining Ireland :: Bios
		Breda Gray Senior Lecturer in the Department of Government and Society at the University of Limerick; former Director of Research at the Irish Centre for Migration Studies, University College Cork.
		Director of the Open Republic Institute, a Dublin-based social policy think-tank; lecturer at Trinity College, Dublin; focuses research on macroeconomic theory, open economy macroeconomics and international finance; has produced academic and policy publications in several scientific and professional journals, policy magazines, and newspapers; a frequent contributor to several national newspapers, magazines, radio, and television programs.
		Gordon LucyDirector of the Ulster Society, a cultural and educational organization promoting Ulster-British Heritage and Culture; Hon.
	www.re-imagining-ireland.org /guests/bios.asp (1642 words)

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	Irish Genealogy
		Ireland's Memorial records - World War 1 (1914-1918) Records compiled by the Committee of the Irish National War Memorial and recording the names and year of death of the 49,400 Irishmen who died in the Great War.
		Ulster Covenant Search - The archive of the Ulster Unionist Council, held by the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI), contains just under half a million original signatures and addresses of the men who, on 28 September 1912, signed the Ulster Covenant, and of the women who signed the parallel Declaration.
		Freeholders' records - Freeholders' records are lists of people entitled to vote, or of people who voted, at elections.
	www.irishgenealogy.ie /search.cfm (176 words)

	Friends of Ulster - USA Scotch Irish / Ulster Scots
		On the declaration of war in 1914, Donegal's UVF was amalgamated into the 36th (Ulster) Division as the 109th brigade, sharing this honour with UVF regiments from Tyrone, Londonderry and Fermanagh - indicative of the close links Donegal had always enjoyed with her three neighbouring Ulster counties.
		Thus it was that a crucial political drama was acted out within the Ulster Unionist Council during the months of April and May of 1920; a drama which split the Unionist cause in two, and which resulted in the breaking of
		And the MLA said that, if St Patrick was alive today, he would ''be a grave embarrassment to a lot of the people who want to claim them as their own''.
	www.ulsterflash.iofm.net (14892 words)

	Cyndi's List - Ireland & Northern Ireland
		Contains just under half a million original signatures and addresses of the men who, on 28 September 1912, signed the Ulster Covenant, and of the women who signed the parallel Declaration.
		An outdoor museum which tells the story of emigration from Ulster to America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
		For the exchange and discussion of the genealogy, culture and history of Canada's Ulster Scots.
	www.cyndislist.com /ireland.htm (3268 words)

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