Ulster Covenant

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The Ulster Covenant was a 1912 mass pledge by unionists in the north of Ireland to resist Home Rule and maintain the union with Britain, a defining moment in modern Irish and Ulster Protestant political history.

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Ulster Covenant canonical 2
Ulster Covenant campaign 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historical document
political pledge
unionist manifesto
aim to maintain the union with Great Britain
to resist the imposition of Home Rule in Ireland
alsoKnownAs Solemn League and Covenant NERFINISHED
appliesTo north of Ireland
archivedAt Public Record Office of Northern Ireland NERFINISHED
associatedWith Church of Ireland NERFINISHED
Orange Order NERFINISHED
Presbyterian Church in Ireland NERFINISHED
commemoratedOn 2012-09-28 centenary events
country United Kingdom
dateSigned 1912-09-28
documentForm printed pledge text with signatures
follows Second Home Rule Bill NERFINISHED
hasPart Women’s Declaration NERFINISHED
historicalPeriod Home Rule crisis
historicalSignificance defining moment in modern Ulster unionism
major milestone in modern Irish political history
influenced creation of Northern Ireland in 1921
inspiredFormationOf Ulster Volunteer Force (1913) NERFINISHED
keyOrganizer Sir Edward Carson NERFINISHED
Sir James Craig NERFINISHED
language English
legalStatus non-binding political declaration
location Belfast NERFINISHED
Ulster NERFINISHED
methodOfSigning public mass signing
opposedBy Irish Parliamentary Party NERFINISHED
Irish nationalists
opposes Irish Home Rule NERFINISHED
organizedBy Ulster Unionist Council NERFINISHED
Ulster Unionist Party NERFINISHED
politicalAlignment British unionism
Ulster unionism NERFINISHED
region province of Ulster NERFINISHED
relatedEvent Third Home Rule Bill NERFINISHED
relatedTo partition of Ireland
religiousContext Ulster Protestant community
signatoriesCount about 471,000
signatoriesType men
signedAt Belfast City Hall NERFINISHED
Orange halls
church halls in Ulster
supports union with Great Britain
threatenedAction use of all means necessary to defeat Home Rule
womenSignatoriesCount about 234,000
year 1912

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Third Home Rule Bill triggered Ulster Covenant
James Craig participatedIn Ulster Covenant
this entity surface form: Ulster Covenant campaign