1. Week 11: The Ulster Crisis, 1912-14
‘Ulster will fight – and Ulster will be right’
Week 11: The Ulster Crisis,

2. ‘Britain may soon be stained with the blood of civil war … No method remains, except armed revolt, by which the country can make its will prevail’.
Conservative Election Guide, 1914

4. Charles Stewart Parnell and Home Rule
1885 Election
1886 Election

5. December 1910 Election
272
272 84 42
Turnout: 81.1%

6. 1912 Government of Ireland Bill
A bi-cameral Irish Parliament Member Irish House of Commons Member Senate
40 Irish MPs to remain at Westminster, to vote on imperial matters
Abolition of the Lord-Lieutenant and the British administration at Dublin Castle
No power over defence, foreign policy, trade, policing or religion.

7. Ulster Unionism
December 1910

8. Sir Edward Carson ( )

10. The Ulster Volunteers

11. Andrew Bonar Law: Unionist Leader, 1911-

12. Bonar Law inspects the Ulster Volunteers, 1914

13. Bonar Law at Blenheim, 1912
‘there are things stronger than Parliamentary majorities. … We shall take whatever means seem to us most effective, to deprive [the government] of the despotic power which they have usurped’

14. ‘Ministers who try and use the army will end up swinging from the lamp-posts of London’.
F. E. Smith
Newcastle, 1914
F. E. Smith ( )

15. The Larne Gun-Running, April 1914

18. Redmond: The ‘Dollar Dictator’

20. ‘Ulster, 1912’ ‘We know the wars prepared On every peaceful home,
We know the hells declared,
For such as serve not Rome.
The terror, threats and bread
In market, hearth and field –
We know, when all is said,
We perish if we yield’.
Rudyard Kipling

21. Herbert Asquith ( )
King Charles I ( )

22. Forerunners of Fascism?

23. December 1910 Election
272
272 84 42
Turnout: 81.1%

25. The House of Lords as a democratic force
Lord Selborne, 1912: The Lords stand ‘for a great democratic principle (cheers) – the principle that there should be an appeal from Ministers who may be unscrupulous, from majorities which may be subservient, to the people from whom Ministers and majorities alike derive their power’.
Sir Robert Finlay, 1912: The Parliament Act ‘absolutely alien to the spirit of democracy’.
F.E. Smith, 1912: Ministers had ‘cheated the people of every vestige of effective control over the national policy’

28. Partition?

30. Belfast Street Murals (Unionist)

31. Carson Statue, Stormont Parliament