The Rebellions of Ulster

First Published 18th April 2024 and now remastered for reinforced verbal precision.The fate of Sir Edward Carson whose memory is expunged effectively by the British Political Establishment for the phenomenon of the defiance which he represented - yet whose legacy lies in the four nations constituting the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the continuance of the Union Flag in it's present form. Small beer indeed for the Queen's Counsel who represented Oscar Wilde and was the inspiration for Sir Robert Morton in Terrence Rattigan's play, " The Wilmslow Boy" yet he is today virtually vanished from history.

First Published 18th April 2024 and now remastered for reinforced verbal precision.The truce is declared and Captain James Craig refuses to be drawn into the negotiations which culminate in the Anglo-Irish Treaty. The artifice of the Boundary Commission is intended to dismantle the Northern Irish State. IRA forces are unleashed on the North until the Irish Civil War intervenes. Carson thunders at Conservative betrayal of his Ulster Unionists.

First Published 18th April 2024 and now remastered for reinforced verbal precision.The Easter Rising and the War of Independence. Sectarian conflict convulses Ulster. The rebirth of the State of Northern Ireland. The new Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Captain James Craig clandestinely meets with Eamon De Valera.

First Published 18th April 2024 and now remastered for reinforced verbal precision.The clock count down to Civil War in Ireland and Britain - Imperial Germany watches. The King intervenes but negotiations prove fruitless. The Great War comes as a stroke of luck to Prime Minister Herbert Asquith.

First Published 18th April 2024 and now remastered for reinforced verbal precision.The gun running operation rebalances the argument allowing Sir Edward Carson to face a check mated Winston Churchill in the House of Commons from a position of strength. Civil War seems a certainty.

First Published 18th April 2024 and now remastered for reinforced verbal precision.The angry and fractious debates continue in the fallout in the wake of the attempted coercion of Ulster. The progress of the gun running plot.

First Published 18th April 2024 and now remastered for reinforced verbal precision.The Special Committee on Ulster under Jack Seeley and Churchill attempt the coercion of Ulster. Carson returns to direct and organise the response. The Curragh Mutiny.

First Published 18th April 2024 and now remastered for reinforced verbal precision.The negotiations drag on. The concept of the six counties of Northern Ireland gains traction. Carson unveils himself as the leader of the Ulster Unionists to the detriment of the Southern Unionists.

First Published 18th April 2024 and now remastered for reinforced verbal precision.Sir Edward Carson and the Ulster Unionist Leaders form the Ulster Volunteer Force, 90,000 strong. The Ulster Provisional Government is created to take control of Ulster the day that Home Rule is passed. Major Frederick Crawford is commissioned to smuggle in enough guns to arm this rebel army within the United Kingdom. The Suffragette campaign against Carson's political opponents and then against Carson himself.

First Published 18th April 2024 and now remastered for reinforced verbal precision.Sectarian clashes in Ulster including the Castledawson outrage, the shipyard and widespread expulsions of Catholics and the riot at the grounds of Belfast Celtic. Sir Edward Carson and the Ulster Union Leaders' strategy to rein in the sectarianism and channel Ulster Protestant energies into mobilising resistance to Home Rule, culminating in Ulster Day and the signing of the Ulster Solemn League and Covenant.