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Nostalgia

The Linenhall Library exclusive collection of Ulster Covenant images

Covenant Day 1912 - Belfast had never seen anything like it

Passions ran high in Ulster during the summer of 1912. For ‘Wee Joe’ Devlin, MP for West Belfast, and his Nationalist supporters, the Home Rule Bill now making its way through Westminster promised the dawn of a new age – the imminent arrival of a long yearned for freedom.

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Inside Nostalgia

Huge turnout expected for Ulster Covenant march in Belfast as unions call for calm

Friday, 28 September 2012

The Ulster Covenant Centenary commemoration will be the biggest parade Northern Ireland has ever seen, it has been claimed.
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Ulster Covenant: Decade of centenaries sees us stuck firmly in the past

Wednesday, 26 September 2012

Well, we have botched our first big test in the highly-anticipated Decade of Centenaries. No matter whether agreement is reached over the Ulster Covenant parade or not, this anniversary — marking one of the defining moments of modern Irish history — will forever be remembered for its troublesome march.
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Road trip to mark the Ulster Covenant’s centenary

Tuesday, 25 September 2012

The centenary of the Ulster Covenant will be marked by a road trip back in time through the north west.
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Ulster Covenant: Whether we like it or not, unity is our way forward

Monday, 24 September 2012

The signing of the Covenant was impressed upon me from an early age, because my father took part in the great demonstration to Balmoral showgrounds on Easter Tuesday 1912.
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More to the Ulster Covenant than concern for Protestantism

Monday, 24 September 2012

The Covenant of 1912 drew on the concept of the Scottish Covenants of 1638, 1642 and 1648. Supposedly, James Craig, M.P. for East Down, future Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (1920-1940) and Carson’s principal lieutenant during the Third Home Rule Crisis, came up with the idea of the Covenant.
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Ulster Covenant: How Edward Carson rose from politician to a visionary statesman

Monday, 24 September 2012

As a child, all I knew about my fellow-Dubliner, Edward Carson, was the verse my historian father had taught me.
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Dean of Belfast: Ulster Covenant 'a watershed'

Monday, 24 September 2012

The Dean of Belfast has spoken out about next week’s events to mark the signing of the Ulster Covenant.
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Clergy in parade deal bid ahead of the controversial Ulster Covenant march

Saturday, 22 September 2012

Protestant clergy are involved in a backstage effort to broker a last minute agreement ahead of the controversial Covenant Centenary parade in Belfast in seven days’ time.
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Old School Pictures: Can you spot Van Morrison? It's not too hard

Friday, 21 September 2012

Belfast's greatest musical export Van Morrison joins Donegal singer Daniel O'Donnel, gun-slinger Gerry Adams, Stephen Nolan, Rory McIlroy and a host of others in the Belfast Telegraph gallery of schoolday images.

Historical Ulster - Images of old Donegal

Friday, 21 September 2012

As Donegal prepares to slug it out in Croke Park we take a nostalgic look back at the county with our exclusive collection of historic images.
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Orange Order: No one will have veto over our Ulster Covenant parade

Friday, 21 September 2012

The Orange Order has insisted that it will not allow anyone to have a ‘veto’ over its biggest event in decades.
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Editor's Viewpoint: Parade tensions call for calm words

Wednesday, 19 September 2012

Before the Royal Black Preceptory march on August 25 this newspaper warned that the intemperate language of some politicians could be interpreted by other elements as a signal to cause trouble.
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Orange Order yet to talk to residents

Wednesday, 19 September 2012

Residents angered when a loyalist band played 'sectarian' tunes outside a Belfast chapel have not been among the delegation of Catholics invited for talks with the Orange Order ahead of next week's Ulster Covenant parade.
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Donegal stages Ulster Covenant exhibition

Monday, 17 September 2012

An Irish government minister has opened an exhibition on the Ulster Covenant at the Donegal County Museum in Letterkenny.
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Editor's Viewpoint: Leadership arrives at last over rioting

Thursday, 6 September 2012

After several nights of rioting in north Belfast, the political leaders at Stormont are at last taking charge of events.
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Town marks Edward Carson anniversary

Thursday, 6 September 2012

A milestone event will be re-enacted this weekend when members of the Orange Order parade through Enniskillen to mark the centenary of Sir Edward Carson’s visit to the town.
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Belfast Telegraph's Old School Pictures: Daniel O'Donnell

Monday, 3 September 2012

Donegal singer with the magic touch Daniel O'Donnell joins Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams, Stephen Nolan, Rory McIlroy and a host of others in the Belfast Telegraph gallery of schoolday images.

Carson's legacy is safe, but his party's in crisis

Wednesday, 29 August 2012

September 28, 1912, was Ulster Day: 417,414 people (the men signing a Covenant and the women an accompanying Declaration), under the guidance of the Unionist Party, pledged their opposition to Irish Home Rule:
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Historical Ulster: The Sixties - images from Belfast Telegraph archives

Monday, 23 July 2012

The poet Philip Larkin commented wryly on the social revolution of the 1960s that "sexual intercourse began in 1963 (which was rather late for me), between the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles' first LP''.
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