Ulster's Stand For Union

by Ronald McNeill

• Ilfracombe, [54]
• Indemnity Guarantee Fund, subscriptions, [156], [163]
• Ipswich, election, [222]
• Ireland, two nations, [2], [84];
• • rebellions, [6];
  • animosity of rival creeds, [9];
  • condition, [17], [19], [298];
  • insurrection, [27];
  • fiscal autonomy, [76]-[78];
  • financial clauses of the Home Rule Bill, [91];
  • prohibition of the importation of arms, [166];
  • Easter Rebellion, [243];
  • exemption from conscription, [268];
  • German plot in, [271];
  • agitation against conscription, [272];
  • anarchy, [279]
• Ireland, Council of, [278]
• Ireland, Government of, Act, [2], [278]-[280]
• Ireland, Northern, Parliament, [280]-[282]
• Irish Convention, [255]-[262];
• • members, [255], [257];
  • Report, [264], [266]
• Irish News, The, [114]
• Irish Republican Army, system of terrorism, [277]
• Irish Republican Brotherhood, [243]
• Irish Unionist Alliance, [30], [265];
• • co-operation with the Ulster Unionist Council, [37]
• Islandmagee, [218]
• Italian Vetteli rifles, [197], [198], [201]

• James II, King, [139], [141]
• Johnston, James, Lord Mayor of Belfast, letter to Pres. Wilson, [273], [296]-[299]

• Kelly, Sam, [209]
• Kelly, Thomas, letter to Pres. Wilson, [287]-[295]
• Kennedy, Sir Robert, member of Provisional Government, [143]
• Kettle, Prof. T.M., on fiscal autonomy for Ireland, [76]
• Kiel, [204]
• Kingstown, cruisers at, [178]
• Kipling, Rudyard, "Ulster 1912," [79], [129];
• • signs the British Covenant, [170]
• Kitchener, F.M. Earl, [230], [238]
• Kossuth, [136]

• Labour Party, [22], [26]
• Ladybank, Mr. Asquith at, [154]
• Lamlash, battleships at, [175]
• Lane-Fox, George, at Belfast, [81]
• Langeland, [204]
• Lansdowne, Marq. of, scheme of reform for the House of Lords, [24];
• • on the Parliament Bill, [44];
  • message from, [115];
  • on the Ulster Question, [169];
  • the Amending Bill, [223];
  • at the Buckingham Palace Conference, [227]
• Larne, [74], [81], [212], [214]
• Law, Rt. Hon. A. Bonar, leader of Unionist Party, [28], [60];
• • on Home Rule, [28], [131];
  • at the Albert Hall, [71];
  • on fiscal autonomy for Ireland, [78];
  • at the Balmoral meeting, [80]-[86];
  • reception at Larne, [81];
  • his speech, [84];
  • indictment against the Government, [90], [172], [174], [235];
  • on the resistance of Ulster, [91], [95], [98];
  • messages from, [115], [149];
  • at Wallsend, [154];
  • Bristol, [166];
  • on the exclusion of Ulster, [169], [171];
  • demands inquiry into the Curragh Incident, [185];
  • on the Amending Bill, [222];
  • at the Buckingham Palace Conference, [227];
  • at Belfast, [236];
  • tribute to, [236];
  • at the Ulster Hall, [237];
  • warning to the Nationalists, [255];
  • on the Military Service Bill, [269], [271]
• Lecky, W.E.H., History of England in the Eighteenth Century, [274] note
• Leeds, meeting at, [149]
• Leo XIII, Pope, [8]
• Leslie, Shane, Henry Edward Manning, [8] note
• Liberal Party, policy, [16];
• • victory in 1906, [18];
  • majority, [19], [22];
  • tactics, [20];
  • number of votes, [22], [26];
  • defeated in 1895, [34]
• Liddell, R.M., [156]
• Lincoln, Abraham, [40];
• • saying of, [15]
• Linlithgow, election, [155]
• Lisburn, meeting at, [108], [114]
• Liverpool, [127]
• Liverpool Daily Courier, The, extract from, [165]
• Liverpool Daily Post and Mercury, [159] note
• Llandudno, [212]
• Lloyd, Mr. George, at Belfast, [81]
• Logue, Cardinal, [10]
• London School of Economics, conference at, [76]
• Londonderry House, conference at, [92], [94], [147]
• Londonderry, Marchioness of,
• • member of the Ulster Women's Unionist Council, [37];
  • on the Covenant, [112];
  • presents colours to the U.V.F., [223];
  • work in the war, [240]
• Londonderry, 6th Marq. of, [viii];
• • on Home Rule, [28];
  • Ulster Unionist Council, [35];
  • popularity, [43];
  • character, [44];
  • relations with Sir E. Carson, [44], [53];
  • on the Parliament Bill, [44];
  • Conference at Belfast, [52];
  • at the Ulster Hall meeting, [62], [106], [108];
  • the Ulster Unionist Council meetings, [65], [67];
  • reply to W. Churchill, [69];
  • at Belfast, [73];
  • at the Balmoral meeting, [84];
  • signs the Covenant, [121];
  • at the Ulster Club, [125];
  • Liverpool, [127];
  • on the House of Lords, [134];
  • President of the Ulster Unionist Council, [145];
  • Indemnity Guarantee Fund, [156];
  • at the reviews of the U.V.F., [164], [223];
  • on the Curragh Incident, [186];
  • on the Amending Bill, [223];
  • at Enniskillen, [227];
  • despondency, [240];
  • death, [241];
  • tribute to, [241]
• Londonderry, 7th Marq. of, [viii];
• • member of the Irish Convention, [257], [263];
  • Under-Secretary of State in the Air Ministry, [275];
  • resignation, [281];
  • Minister of Education, [281]
• Long, Rt. Hon. Walter, [147];
• • founder of the Union Defence League, [37];
  • leader of the Irish Unionists, [38];
  • at the Ulster Hall, [42];
  • candidate for the leadership of the Unionist Party, [60];
  • at Belfast, [81], [224];
  • at the Balmoral meeting, [84], [86];
  • the Londonderry House conference, [92];
  • message from, [115];
  • on the policy of the Government, [170];
  • signs the British Covenant, [170];
  • chairman of a Cabinet Committee on the Irish Question, [277]
• Lonsdale, Sir John B., member of the Ulster Unionist Council, [35];
• • Hon. Sec. of the Irish Unionist Party, [39];
  • signs Covenant, [122];
  • Indemnity Guarantee Fund, [156];
  • leader of the Ulster Party, [254];
  • at Belfast, [257];
  • raised to the peerage, [263];
  • see Armaghdale
• Lords, House of,
• • rejection of the Home Rule Bill, [17], [135];
  • of the Finance Bill, [19], [21];
  • forced to accept the Parliament Bill, [27];
  • position under the Parliament Act, [134];
  • debates on the Home Rule Bill, [134]
• Loreburn, Lord, letters to The Times, [152], [165]
• Lough Laxford, [203], [206], [207]
• Lough, Thomas, on fiscal autonomy for Ireland, [76]
• Lovat, Lord, signs the British Covenant, [170]
• Lowther, Rt. Hon. James, at the Buckingham Palace Conference, [227]
• Loyal Orange Institution, [31]
• Lundy, [208]
• Lyons, W.H.H., [35]

• Macdonnell, Lord, on fiscal autonomy for Ireland, [76]
• Mackinder, H.J., at Belfast, [81]
• Macnaghten, Sir Charles, member Provisional Government, [145]
• Macnaghten, Lord, Lord of Appeal, [140], [145];
• • signs the Covenant, [122]
• MacNeill, John, letter to Pres. Wilson, [287]-[295]
• Mahan, Admiral, [130]
• Maine, Sir H., Popular Government, extract from, [14]
• Malcolm, Sir Ian, at Belfast, [81]
• Manchester, [77], [166];
• • election, [99]
• Manchester Guardian, The, [166]
• Manning, Cardinal, on Home Rule, [8]
• Mary, H.M., Queen, at the opening of the Ulster Parliament, [282];
• • reception in Belfast, [283]
• Massereene, Lady, presents colours to the Ulster Volunteer Force, [223]
• Massingham, Mr., [166]
• Masterman, Rt. Hon. C.F.G., [170], [222]
• Mazzini, [136]
• McCalmont, Col. James, Ulster Unionist Council, [35];
• • Commander of a U.V.F regiment, [163]
• McCammon, Mr., [121]
• McDowell, Sir Alexander, criticism of the Ulster Covenant, [104]
• McMordie, Mr., Lord Mayor of Belfast,
• • at the service in the Ulster Hall, [118];
  • receives Sir E. Carson, [120];
  • at the Ulster Club, [125]
• Meath election petition in 1892, [10]
• Melbourne, Lord, [136]
• Mersey, the, [127]
• Midleton, Earl of, at the Irish Convention, [260];
• • supports Home Rule, [262];
  • secedes from the Irish Unionist Alliance, [265]
• Midlothian, election, [99]
• Military Service Act, ii., [268]-[272]
• Milner, Viscount, signs the British Covenant, [170];
• • on the Amending Bill, [223]
• Moles, Thomas, [viii];
• • Chairman of Committee in the Northern Parliament, [282]
• Molyneux, patriotism, [7]
• Monaghan, [248], [279]
• Montgomery, B.W.D., Secretary of the Ulster Club, [103]
• Montgomery, Dr., [118]
• Montgomery, Major-Gen., member of Provisional Government, [145]
• Moore, William, Ulster Unionist Council, [35];
• • on the amendment to the Home Rule Bill, [96];
  • exclusion of Ulster, [168]
• Morley, Viscount, Life of Gladstone, [17];
• • on the resistance of Ulster, [154];
  • helps Colonel Seely to draft the "peccant paragraphs," [181], [183]
  • Morning Post, The, [79], [225], [229], [283] note
• Motu Proprio, Vatican decree, [11]
• Mount Stewart, [82], [225]
• Mountjoy, the, [87], [214]
• Mountjoy II, s.s., cargo landed at Larne, [214], [218]
• Moyle, the, [193]
• Musgrave Channel, [211], [217]
• Musgrave, Henry, [156]

• Nation, The, [158]
• National Insurance Bill, [53]
• Nationalist Party, in the House of Commons, [22], [26];
• • attitude on the war, [267];
  • opposition to conscription, [269]-[273]
• Nationalists, the, compared with the Ulster Unionists, [2];
• • disloyalty, [4]-[6];
  • policy, [6], [78], [141], [142];
  • ancestry, [8];
  • demand dissolution of the Union, [14];
  • attitude on the war, [231], [233], [252];
  • members of the Irish Convention, [256]-[262];
  • letter to Pres. Wilson, [273], [287]-[295];
  • demand "self-determination," [291], [298]
• Nationality, root of, [2];
• • plea of [14], [15]
• Navy, reduction of, [167], [201]
• Nec Temere, Vatican decree, [11]
• Neild, Herbert, at Belfast, [81]
• Newcastle, [149], [153];
• • training camp, [237]
• Newman, Cardinal, [5]
• Newry, [177]
• Newtownards, [225];
• • meeting at, [108], [114]
• Nineteenth Century, The, [183] note, [239] note
• Nonconformists, [9];
• • opposition to Home Rule, [155]
• Northcliffe, Viscount, [225]
• Norwich, Ulster members at, [150]

• O'Brien, William, [22];
• • on the Military Service Bill, [270];
  • letter to Pres. Wilson, [273], [287]-[295]
• Observer, The, [84], [115] note, [225]
• O'Connell, Daniel, [7]
• O'Connor, T.P., [127], [174], [275];
• • on Home Rule, [253]
• Omagh, military depot, [175], [176]
• Omash, Miss, [viii]
• O'Neill, Capt. Hon. Arthur, [230];
• • killed in the war, [241], [253]
• O'Neill, Major Hugh, serves in the war, [242];
• • Speaker of the Northern Parliament, [282]
• O'Neill, Hugh, Earl of Tyrone, [7]
• O'Neill, Laurence, Lord Mayor of Dublin,
• • letter to Pres. Wilson, [273], [287]-[295]
• O'Neill, Hon. R.T., member of the Ulster Unionist Council, [35]
• Ormsby-Gore, Capt. the Hon. W.G.A., at Belfast, [81]
• O'Shea, divorce, [17]

• Paget, Sir Arthur, Commander-in-Chief in Ireland,
• • letter from Colonel Seely, [175];
  • in London, [176];
  • interviews with Ministers, [177];
  • instructions from the War Office, [178], [180];
  • conference with his officers, [179], [185];
  • on the employment of troops in Ulster, [186]
• Parliament, assembled, [23], [131], [167];
• • dissolved, [23], [275];
  • adjourned, [99]
• Parliament Act, [23], [27], [43]-[45], [53], [91]
• Parliamentary Debates, [viii], [29] note, [142], [179] note, [181] note, [185] note
• Parnell, Charles, saying of, [6];
• • leader of the Nationalist Party, [6];
  • downfall, [17]
• Pathfinder, H.M.S., [178]
• Patriotic, R.M.S., [128]
• Peel, Sir Robert, [138]
• Peel, W., at Belfast, [81]
• "People's Budget," [20];
• • rejection, [42]
• Percival-Maxwell, Col., Privy Councillor, [284]
• Phoenix Park murders, [243]
• Pirrie, Lord, unpopularity in Belfast, [63];
• • peerage conferred, [284]
• Pitt, Rt. Hon. William, [15]
• Plunkett, Sir Horace, Chairman of the Irish Convention, [257], [261];
• • letter to Lloyd George, [264]
• Pollock, Sir Ernest, at Belfast, [81]
• Pollock, H.M., member of the Irish Convention, [257], [262]
• Portadown, meeting at, [108], [114]
• Portland, Duke of, signs the British Covenant, [170]
• Portrush, [55], [193]
• Presbyterian Church, General Assembly of the, [155]
• Presbyterians, political views, [12]
• Preston, George, subscription to the Indemnity Guarantee Fund, [156]
• Prisoners, release of, [256]
• Protestants, Irish, distrust of Roman Catholics, [9];
• • dislike of clerical influence, [10]

• Ramsay, Sir W., signs the British Covenant, [170]
• Ranfurly, Earl of, organises the Ulster Loyalist Union, [30], [37];
• • member of the Unionist Council, [35]
• Raphoe, Bishop of, member of the Irish Convention, [258], [260]-[262]
• Rawlinson, J.F.P., at Belfast, [81]
• Reade, R.H., [35]
• Reading, Mr. Asquith at, [24];
• • election, [155]
• Redistribution Act, [275]
• Redmond, Capt., [275]
• Redmond, John, [174];
• • on the national movement, [7];
  • policy, [22];
  • on Home Rule, [27], [54];
  • with Mr. W. Churchill in Belfast, [63], [68];
  • opinion of Sir E. Carson's speech, [133];
  • protests against Amending Bill, [222];
  • at Buckingham Palace Conference, [227];
  • conditional offer of help in the war, [231], [233];
  • tribute to, [239];
  • patriotism, [239];
  • refuses office, [242];
  • at Dublin, [249];
  • on the exclusion of Ulster, [250];
  • manifesto, [254];
  • at the Irish Convention, [260]-[262];
  • death, [262];
  • on the condition of Ireland, [298]
• Redmond, Major W., his speech in the House, [253];
• • killed in the war, [253]
• Reform Club, Belfast, [122], [124], [191]
• Reid, Whitelaw, [274]
• Renan, E., on the root of nationality, [2]
• Reynolds's Newspaper, [89]
• Richardson, Gen. Sir George, Commander-in-Chief of the U.V.F., [161], [197];
• • career, [161];
  • characteristics, [162];
  • at Belfast, [162], [217];
  • reviews the U.V.F., [163]-[165]
• Rifles, seized by Government, [161], [195];
• • purchase of, [198];
  • packing, [201];
  • landed in Ulster, [219]
• Roberts, F.M. Earl, [130], [188];
• • letter to Col. Hickman, [161], [195];
  • signs British Covenant, [170];
  • congratulations to Sir E. Carson, [220];
  • on the result of coercing Ulster, [224]
• Robertson, Rt. Hon. J.M., Secretary to the Board of Trade,
• • on fiscal autonomy for Ireland, [76];
  • at Newcastle, [153]
• Rochdale, Unionist Association at, [99]
• Roe, Owen, [7]
• Roman Catholics, Irish, disloyalty [9];
• • character of the priest, [10];
  • methods of enforcing obedience, [10]-[12]
• Rosebery, Earl of, [15], [18];
• • at Glasgow, [22];
  • on the characteristics
  • of the Ulster race, [101]
• Rosslare, [220]
• Royal Irish Rifles, the [5]th, [57]
• Russia, collapse of, [268]
• Russian rifles, [198]

• S.B., the Hebrew dealer in firearms, [197];
• • agreement with Major F.H. Crawford, [197]-[200];
  • honesty, [204]
• St. Aldwyn, Viscount, on the King's Prerogative, [151]
• Salisbury, Marq. of, at Belfast, [13], [81];
• • message from, [109];
  • views on Home Rule, [128]
• Salvidge, Mr., Alderman of Liverpool, [127], [128];
• • signs the British Covenant, [170]
• Samuel, Mr. Herbert, at Belfast, [54]
• Sanderson, Colonel, Chairman of the Ulster Parliamentary Party, [35], [38]
• Saturday Review, The, extract from, [70]
• Sclater, Edward, Secretary of the Unionist Clubs, [53]
• Scotland, the Covenant, [103]
• Scotsman, The, [101], [225], [274] note
• Seely, Col. Sec. of State for War, letter to Sir A. Paget, [175];
• • statement to Gen. Gough, [181];
  • adds paragraphs, [181], [183];
  • on the Curragh Incident, [182];
  • resignation, [183], [184]
• Seymour, Adm. Sir E., signs British Covenant, [170]
• Sharman-Crawford, Col., member of the Ulster Unionist Council, [35];
• • of the Commission of Five, [53]
• Shaw, Lord, Letters to Isabel, [18] note
• Shiel Park, meeting at, [128]
• Shipyards, observance of Ulster Day, [117]
• Shortt, Rt. Hon. E., Chief Secretary for Ireland, [272]
• Simon, Sir John, [175]
• Sinclair, Rt. Hon. Thomas, at the Ulster Convention, [33];
• • member of the Ulster Unionist Council, [35], [67];
  • on Home Rule, [38];
  • member of a Commission, [63];
  • on the Covenant, [104], [109];
  • signs it, [121]
• Sinn Fein party, refuse to join the Convention, [255];
• • in league with Germany, [271], [276];
  • arrests, [271];
  • members of Parliament, [276], [276];
  • treason of, [276];
  • congress in Dublin, [276]; outrages, [277]
• Sinn Feinism, spirit of, [4]
• Skipton, [167]
• Smiley, Kerr, [156]
• Smith, Rt. Hon. F.E. (Lord Birkenhead), on the policy of Ulster, [97], [98];
• • on the Covenant, [109];
  • at the Ulster Club, [125];
  • at Liverpool, [127];
  • at the inspection of the U.V.F., [162];
  • "galloper" to Gen. Sir G. Richardson, [163]
• Smith, Mr. Harold, [109]
• Solemn League and Covenant, [104];
• • see Ulster
• Somme, battle of the, [234]
• Spectator, The, [225]
• Spender, Col. W. Bliss, U.V.F., [197], [203], [207], [215];
• • awarded the O.B.E., [284]
• Standard, The, [70], [118], [225]
• Star, The, extract from, [89]
• Stronge, Sir James, member of the Ulster Unionist Council, [35]
• Stuart-Wortley, Mr., at Belfast, [81]
• Submarine warfare, [253]
• Suffragists' campaign, [167]
• Swift, patriotism, [7]