THE SPECTACLE OF James warning the Loyalists about law and order, asserting the primacy of parliamen democracy. ana aeclar in the To Vorce of wits force authority against those who do not respect the rights of others', is deeply ironical.
For, what the Tones are now tac creation. It is a monster that was built and fed in the years 1911 to 1914 when the Tory opposition in parlia ment lent their vocal financial and tions which lan F political the type of ac Ian Paisley is leading to The lan Paisley of those days was Sir Edward Carson, a former Solicitor General and Tory cabine In 1911 he became leader of the Irish Unionists. At the time, all of Ireland was under British Tre aid ral govern ent led by Henry Asquith, pressure from the Irish nationalists in parliament, was arrangeexpressed in the Third Home ate was to establish devolved parliament in Ireland which would have limited powers to deal with Irish affairs, although at would subservient to Westminister in many important matters.
Even this strictly limited form of scil-government opposcd by Edward Carson and his Unionists. Consequences The Unionist upper class Ireland Icared the consequences o workers in the North cast of treland The *Protestant Ulster tion. The then nine counties of Ulster were equally divided on Unionist/Nationalist lines, to the religious theless, what Carson was threatening was the seizure of power in Uister by the Unionists. It rebelon a against une bust Darne against laws Country to whom the Unionists were meant to adhere. Covenant rebellion grew in deeds and words. In September 1912 THURS Covenant by which they pledged to Irish use an necessary means to aelea the present conspiracy to set up a Home Rule parliament in Ireland In January private army, Force was set ported arms while leaders made plans to establish a pro visional government if the Rule Bill was passed Such then scope of 912-14. derived their political strength from, be and what allowed their revolt to unpunished was mne were given by the British establish ment, and particularly by the Tory Party Conservative Bonar 1912: There are stronger things than parliamentary majorities...l can im agine no leneth of resistance to which Ulster will go in which I will not be ready to support them.
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was not an accurate descripBETRACHE which approximated divisions. Never- scriousness establishment was tantamount i to passed by that For the next three cars that nearly 500,000 Ulster 1913 the Unionists" the Ulster Voluntees openly and im the Unionist was the nature and the Ulster rebellion of But where the Unionists go support the leader Andrew Law put it this way in July backed down, but the Tories' attempt to use George V to over-ride democracy King's willingness to go along with this at least for the time, indicated the with which the Tory DELTANCE back the Ulster rebels.
Equally dramatically, the Tory The Ulster Defence Association n IN DREADFULLY FROM WAR