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On the eve of the centenary of perhaps the most significant event in Ulster during these two years—the signing of Ulster's Solemn League and Covenant—Friends in High Places: Ulster's resistance to Irish Home Rule, 1912-14 tells the story of Ulster's organised resistance to the Third Home Rule Bill, and in particular assesses the nature and degree of success of unionists' political and propaganda campaigns. The island of Ireland was on the cusp of Home Rule towards the end of the Edwardian period. Only the determined opposition of Ulster unionists and their allies in Great Britain prevented this from occurring. Loyalists exhibited genuine feelings of besiegement and isolation between1912 and 1914 and many observers believed Ireland was, by the summer of 1914, on the verge of civil war. The central focus of Friends in High Places is the vital interdependence of Ulster unionists and the British establishment during the late Edwardian period. It analyses the true nature...

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Author

Alan F. Parkinson

Publisher

Ulster Historical Foundation

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781908448897

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Political Science, Humanities