In this infamous campaign, 2,000 young Ulster soldiers died on the opening day. The murals often overlook memorial gardens which jointly commemorate those who fell in the first World War and...

Jun 21, 2022 · The crisis saw 500,000 mainly Ulster-based Unionists sign the Ulster Covenant, vowing to refuse to recognise the legitimacy of Home Rule (Morris, 2011). This was matched …

Apr 25, 2012 · And ‘No Surrender!’” All over Ulster men were still signing the Covenant and women separately signed their own declaration. Altogether 471,414 people signed.

Sep 3, 2022 · Believed to have originated during the time of the Derry siege. I think it's hilarious that loyalists use the red hand of the 9 County ulster. It's a very important and well known irish symbol. Another phrase was required to preceed the term '3 …

Aug 27, 2022 · The most famous Ulster unionist slogan is “no surrender”, still cried at the annual August and December parades of the Apprentice Boys over Derry’s walls – or Londonderry’s.

Did the 1912 Ulster Covenant have transatlantic connections like the other covenants, which had informed the identity of Canadian Presbyterians and American Reformers for the previous three centuries? Perhaps not surprisingly, the answer to both questions is in the negative.

Aug 28, 2013 · The document summarizes the opposition to Home Rule in Ulster, Ireland in the late 19th/early 20th century from the Protestant population. Religious, economic, and political factors contributed to Ulster's resistance.

On many of the platforms, the common cry of the day was ‘No surrender’, a message which was given urgency by ongoing security concerns along the border and by what the Belfast Newsletter has ...

Jun 1, 2013 · Despite the fanfare surrounding its appearance in 1912, the Ulster Covenant is a forgotten relic of the Unionist past compared to the enduring legacy of the Great War. Throughout the article, the capitalised term ‘Unionist’ refers specifically to members of …

The people who refused to surrender at the Alamo were the same people whose cry was “No Surrender” when they held out against the odds at the great siege of Londonderry in 1689.