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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 Ulster Covenant
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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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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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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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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