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Solemn League and Covenant

British-Irish history [1912]
Also known as: Ulster Covenant

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history of

    • Ireland
      • Ireland
        In Ireland: The 20th-century crisis

        Thousands of Ulstermen signed the Solemn League and Covenant to resist Home Rule (1912), and in January 1913 the Ulster unionists established a paramilitary army, the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), to coordinate armed resistance. In September 1913 Carson announced that a provisional government of Ulster would be established in the…

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    • Northern Ireland
      • Northern Ireland
        In Northern Ireland: Home Rule

        Oaths were sworn (the Solemn League and Covenant), and paramilitary forces were organized and armed. A civil war in Ireland, between Irish nationalists in the south and unionists in the north, seemed imminent. In 1914 the Home Rule Bill of 1912 passed the Commons for the third time, which,…

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