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	Ulster Unionist Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP, sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or OUP or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party) is a unionist political party in Northern Ireland, and was the party of government in Northern Ireland between 1921 and 1972.
		The UUP came into existence as the Irish Unionist Party in 1905 to resist any granting of home rule to Ireland within the United Kingdom, which was the main demand of the Irish Parliamentary Party under leaders Isaac Butt, William Shaw, Charles Stewart Parnell and John Redmond.
		For example, Ulster Unionist support was necessary to sustain the Conservative Government of Prime Minister John Major during the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty in 1993 when many of his own MPs (the Maastricht Rebels) revolted.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ulster_Unionists (1458 words)

	Unionists (Ireland) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the context of Irish politics, Unionists are people in Northern Ireland, who wish to see the continuation of the 1801 Act of Union, as amended by the Government of Ireland Act 1920, under which Northern Ireland, created in that latter Act, remains part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
		The Unionists of this period (especially outside Ulster) were almost entirely made up of the governing and landowning classes and the minor gentry.
		Unionists were in the majority in four counties (Antrim, Derry, Down and Armagh) but insisted on control over the counties of Fermanagh and Tyrone as well.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Unionists_(Ireland) (2449 words)

	CBSNews.com
		Mitchell brokers a plan that requires Ulster Unionists to accept Sinn Fein in Cabinet, Sinn Fein to pledge disarmament is "essential" and the IRA to start cooperating with disarmament commission.
		Ulster Unionists, Social Democratic and Labor Party and Sinn Fein sit down around the same Cabinet table, but members of the fourth coalition - the Democratic Unionists - boycott the meeting but accept the cabinet posts.
		After intense negotiations involving Ulster Unionists and Sinn Fein, Britain and Ireland call for power-sharing to resume May 22 and for the disarmament deadline to be extended to June 2001.
	www.cbsnews.com /htdocs/northernireland/timeline_recent.html (784 words)

	CAIN: Issues: Politics: Cochrane, Feargal (1997) 'The Unionists of Ulster: An ideological Analysis'
		This strand of unionist philosophy was outlined by John Taylor when the Ulster Unionist MP for Strangford was asked whether his unionism revolved primarily around a political allegiance to Britain derived from a perception of potential economic advantage, or rather emanated from a cultural affinity with the people and institutions of the UK.
		John Taylor, deputy leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, commented upon this weakness within unionism, arguing that the assumption of his more radical colleagues within the DUP that the Union was a one-way relationship had been detrimental to unionist political fortunes as their behaviour had alienated the other partner in the relationship.
		The Ulster Protestant community 'has evoked a kind of group loyalty incompatible with acceptance of the full implications of British nationality'.[95] Miller determined that it was the forces of modernisation and economic progress which were the root cause of the differences between Northern Ireland's relationship with England, and that of Scotland and Wales.
	cain.ulst.ac.uk /issues/politics/union/fcchap2.htm (18349 words)

	Unionists (Ireland) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		One Unionist political family, the Dockrells, joined and became TDs (MPs) over a number of generations for Cumann na nGaedhael and its successor party, Fine Gael (the governing party in the 1920s, the main opposition from 1932 on).
		The Ulster Unionist Party now has Catholic members; one of its most respected MLAss (Member of the power-sharing Legislative Assembly) is Catholic.
		Indeed one of the biggest surprises in Northern Ireland is that the anti-Catholic right-wing Protestant leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, the Rev. Ian Paisley, attracts a large proportion of Catholic votes in his constituency in elections to the British and European Parliaments (he serves in both).
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/unionists__ireland_ (1987 words)

	Ulster Unionist Party - Introduction
		On 22nd October 1904, a conference of Unionists in Belfast passed a resolution suggesting that the secretary of the Irish Unionist Parliamentary Party be directed to summons a preliminary meeting in Belfast of Ulster Unionists, to discuss the advisability of forming a central Ulster Unionist Association.
		The Ulster Unionist Council was constituted formally at a meeting in the Ulster Hall, Belfast on 3rd March 1905 under the Chairmanship of Colonel James McCalmont, MP for East Antrim.
		At the Annual General Meeting of the Ulster Unionist Council in the Assembly Hall, Belfast on 24th February 1921, Sir James Craig was unanimously elected leader of the Unionist Party in Ulster, having been proposed by Carson and seconded by Sir James H Stronge.
	www.geocities.com /SoHo/6010/hiindex.htm (3624 words)

	Northern Irish
		So-called ‘loyalists’ tend towards ‘fundamentalist Protestantism, conditional unionism, and an Ulster identity.’[8] This overwhelmingly Presbyterian and working-class constituency is represented by the Democratic Unionist Party of the charismatic Ian Paisley and, increasingly, by smaller, secular loyalist parties such as the Progressive Unionist Party and the Ulster Democratic Party, which speak for various paramilitary factions.
		Ulster’s unionists are not a repressed minority within the Republic of Ireland.
		The unionist tradition has incorporated and exalted a number of cultural features that may be pointed to as core elements of a unionist ‘character.’ The Protestant faith is, obviously, of deep importance, as are the traditional liberties seen as inherent in British citizenship.
	lilt.ilstu.edu /critique/Fall2001Docs/tdonnelly.htm (4090 words)

	Irish News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ulster Unionist leader Mr David Trimble is pushing his party into "the second division" of Northern Ireland politics, the anti-Agreement Jeffrey Donaldson claimed tonight.
		As speculation mounted about his future in the Ulster Unionists, rebel MP Mr Jeffrey Donaldson claimed unionist voters were deserting the party because of the "failed policy" of Mr Trimble and his supporters.
		The Ulster Unionist Party under its present leadership and direction is destined to play second fiddle in the second division of Ulster politics," Donaldson said.
	www.iais.org /shtmp.cfm?News_ID=3538 (327 words)

	CNN - Ulster Unionists want IRA expelled from talks - February 11, 1998
		Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble told a news conference that responsibility for the decision lay with Northern Ireland Secretary Mo Mowlam.
		Any more killings attributed to the UDA would ensure the continued exclusion of the Ulster Democrats from the talks, which are supposed to conclude in May.
		At talks Wednesday, the Ulster Unionists unveiled a document outlining their vision of a peace settlement.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9802/11/n.ireland (690 words)

	BBC News \| NORTHERN IRELAND \| Ulster Unionists to consider strategy
		Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble is to discuss his continuing strategy at his party's annual general meeting on Saturday.
		However, Ulster Unionist Environment Minister Dermot Nesbitt, a strong supporter of Mr Trimble, said he was hopeful of greater unity in the party when the ruling council meets on Saturday.
		Speaking on BBC Radio Ulster on Friday morning, Mr Nesbitt said: "I believe there is a recognition of the reality of what David Trimble is trying to do and the difficulty of the job.
	newsimg.bbc.co.uk /1/low/northern_ireland/1861633.stm (333 words)

	Explain why Ulster Unionists, together with their political allies, brought Ireland to the point of Civil war by 1914.
		Explain why Ulster Unionists, together with their political allies, brought Ireland to the point of Civil war by 1914.
		Below is a short sample of the essay "Explain why Ulster Unionists, together with their political allies, brought Ireland to the point of Civil war by 1914.".
		Shortly after the march at Balmoral, Bonar Law, a leader of the Ulster Unionists, since he grew up in Ulster as a child actions, increased the rivalry between the Nationalists and the Unionists, thus bringing the country closer to civil war.
	www.coursework.info /i/22846.html (414 words)

	Ulster Unionists Open Way for Ruling With Sinn Fein
		For the Ulster Unionists, the most powerful voice of Protestant politics in Northern Ireland, Saturday's vote was a significant step away from a history of stubborn refusal to participate in arrangements devised to share power with Catholics.
		The stalemate put a complete brake on progress in July, when the Ulster Unionists boycotted the session of the assembly at which the nominations to the executive cabinet were to be made.
		He also argued that by making their move first, the Ulster Unionists, weary of being blamed for intransigence, were transferring responsibility for the continuation of the new government to the republican movement.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/world/europe/112899nireland-unionists.html (1338 words)

	Ulster Unionists Block Mosque - National Miscellaneous - Indymedia Ireland
		Fred Crowe, an Ulster Unionist councillor and former Mayor for the Craigavon area, said that residents in Bleary believed that their way of life would be threatened if the mosque were built.
		Like other Unionist councillors, Mr Smith claims the mosque, proposed for a boggy field three miles outside Portadown, will cause sewage problems and heavy traffic on the country road leading to it, even though Muslims say that their community is at most 200-strong in Craigavon.
		Unionists don't seem to mind, that portadown is filled with backward neo nazi LVF terrorist types.
	www.indymedia.ie /newswire.php?id=24322&start=0 (788 words)

	BBC News \| TALKING POINT \| Were the Ulster Unionists right to resign?
		The unionist resignations went ahead despite widespread speculation that the IRA was on the verge of making a significant move over the issue of paramilitary weapons.
		The Unionists and Nationalists are like a group of people who have been invited to the best restaurant in the world at great trouble and expense but refuse to start eating because they're quibbling about the colour of the tablecloth.
		Unionists are becoming increasingly disillusioned with a process where all they ever seem to do is give and receive nothing but broken promises in return.
	news.bbc.co.uk /low/english/talking_point/newsid_1606000/1606389.stm (4415 words)

	BBC News Online \| Northern Ireland \| Ulster Unionists mark centenary
		Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble has laid a wreath at the grave of Lord Carson to mark the 100th anniversary of the party's ruling council.
		Initially it had 200 members, 100 from unionist associations, 50 from the Orange Order and 50 members co-opted as distinguished unionists from all the nine counties of Ulster.
		The UUC was to play a vital role in mobilising Ulster unionist resistance to the third Home Rule bill, 1912-14.
	news.bbc.co.uk /nolpda/ukfs_news/hi/newsid_4313000/4313489.stm (182 words)

	I will explain how Carson, Craig and the Ulster Unionists were opposed to the Home Rule bill, and how they felt they ...
		I will explain how Carson, Craig and the Ulster Unionists were opposed to the Home Rule bill, and how they felt they were justified in using armed force if necessary, to get what they believe was their right to a British government for Ireland.
		Below is a short sample of the essay "I will explain how Carson, Craig and the Ulster Unionists were opposed to the Home Rule bill, and how they felt they were justified in using armed force if necessary, to get what they believe was their right to a British government for Ireland.".
		Unionists believed that Asquith was lusting for power and that his desire for this was so great that he allowed himself and the government of the Great British Empire to be held at ransom.
	www.coursework.info /i/31486.html (575 words)

	MDO - Ulster Unionists, Irish clash in Northern Ireland's peace talks - 04/02/1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		With the deadline for an agreement one week away, the Ulster Unionists demanded to see the Irish delegation's final draft for softening their country's constitutional claim to Northern Ireland, a longstanding Protestant grievance.
		The Ulster Unionists and the main Catholic party, the Social Democratic and Labor Party, or SDLP, accept that approach, but are split on what powers the two proposed institutions should have.
		The Ulster Unionists want the Belfast assembly to be purely administrative, and for lawmaking to be left in the hands of the British Parliament.
	www.mndaily.com /daily/1998/04/02/world_nation/wn3.ap (328 words)

	Ulster Unionists Lose Out (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble has blamed republicans and the Government for the decimation of his party at the General Election, and the loss of his own parliamentary seat.
		Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble today blamed republicans and the British government for the decimation of his party at the General Election, and the loss of his own parliamentary seat.
		ULSTER Unionist leader David Trimble became the biggest name casualty of the General Election last night after losing his seat.
	news.peem.co.uk /Republic_of_Ireland/1033b7f7870 (915 words)

	BBC News \| TALKING POINT \| Did the Ulster Unionists make the right decision?
		The decommissioning crisis is more to do with a unionists desire to score a victory over Republicans than their genuine fear of a return to violence, they cannot force decommissioning to take place with threats and deadlines.
		All the Unionists are asking for is a genuine commitment to democracy and the rule of law.
		There was a 'deafening silence' from the Unionists during the loyalist feud yet IRA guns which remain inactive and disused seem to be the Unionist stumbling block to peace.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/talking_point/999777.stm (2679 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Ulster Unionists Council was formally constituted at a meeting in the Ulster Hall in Belfast on March 3,1905.
		The Ulster Unionists Council recently celebrated its 90th Anniversary and it is reviewing its structure and considering its possible reconstruction as an organized political party.
		However, the Ulster Unionists Council continues to represent the interests of the Ulster British people, and it is continuing to work to preserve the unity of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
	www.earlham.edu /~pols/17Fall96/donovle/homepage3.4.html (173 words)

	RTE News - Ulster Unionists push for decommissioning, power transfer may be delayed
		A senior Ulster Unionist has said Sinn Féin could be in cabinet within hours after the beginning of decommissioning.
		The party's security spokesman in the Assembly, Michael McGimpsey, said the Ulster Unionists were not trying to make difficulties for Republicans.
		The Ulster Unionist Assembly group has dismissed a suggestion from the Deputy First Minister Seamus Mallon that a form of words on decommissioning or a timetable for the disposal of arms would deal adequately with the weapons issue.
	www.rte.ie /news/1999/0303/north.html (416 words)

	THE BLANKET * Index: Current Articles
		Not only has the DUP stolen the Ulster Unionists' clothes and policies, but it is clear Paisleyism is set to take as many UUP seats in local government and Westminster as possible.
		The Unionist Party is not an electoral pact, or a coalition or council - it is a single party, just as Sinn Fein has become the single biggest party for republicans in the North.
		Many pro-Agreement Ulster Unionists are worried the party could go the same way as the late Brian Faulkner's pro-Assembly unionist grouping, which eventually became the now defunct Unionist Party of Northern Ireland.
	lark.phoblacht.net /jc1201052g.html (1236 words)

	USATODAY.com - Ulster Unionists want Sinn Fein out (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		An Ulster Unionist walkout would trigger the collapse of the four-party coalition formed under terms of Northern Ireland's 1998 peace pact.
		Neither the Democratic Unionists nor Sinn Fein, the smallest two parties within the four-party coalition, are essential for it to function.
		The two crucial players are Trimble's Ulster Unionists and the moderate Catholics of the Social Democratic and Labor Party.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2002-10-08-nireland_x.htm (617 words)

	CNN.com - N.Ireland: Ulster Unionists call key meeting - October 13, 2000
		The Ulster Unionist meeting in central Belfast debated for three hours behind closed doors over when to call a special convention of their ruling 860-member council.
		The Ulster Unionists agreed last November to form a four-party coalition government that included members of Sinn Fein, the republican political party.
		And Ulster Unionists say the group has not delivered on a May pledge to put all of its tons of weaponry "verifiably and completely beyond use," a process supposed to include destruction of at least some of the stockpile.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/europe/UK/10/13/belfast.ulster (625 words)

	Issue in Depth: The Northern Ireland Peace Process
		North Ireland's Ulster Unionist Party voted to approve its leaders entering government with their ancient rivals from Sinn Fein, the political ally of the Irish Republican Army.
		Ulster's main Protestant party said that it was unwilling to join the I.R.A.'s political wing in government.
		Northern Ireland's largest political party, the Ulster Unionists, beat back growing internal opposition and voted to support the peace agreement aimed at settling decades of violent struggle between the British province's two principal religious groups.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/world/nireland-index.html (867 words)

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