Word: ulstermen
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Southern Ireland flies the green, white & orange flag of the Free State; Northern Ireland ("Ulster") hoists the Union Jack. Free Staters send nobody to the London House of Commons; Ulstermen elect 13 M. P.'s. Each Ireland has its royally appointed Governor General?in the Free State Mr. James McNeill, in Ulster the Duke of Abercorn...
Gallop to Woolsack. Battling Protestant that he was, "F. E." fought the granting of "home rule" to Ireland before the War?for this would have meant rule of Irish Protestants (Ulstermen) by Irish Catholics. When violence seemed the only way to head off home rule, the prizefighter's grandson went to Ireland as chief aide to Sir Edward Carson, dashed about fomenting shenanigans at such a rate that admiring Irish nicknamed him "The Galloper...
...Bloody Sholapur." From his cool summer capital at Mahabaleshwar, H. E. Maj.General Sir Frederick Sykes. Governor of Bombay Presidency, directed by telegraph the Royal Ulstermen's occupation of Sholapur, their tearing down of the Indian flag wherever flown, their hoisting of the Union Jack. Stay at home subjects of George V know that, given an occasional whiskey soda and a tough platoon or two, "Sir Freddy" Sykes fears his own Jehovah but no heathen God. man or devil, commands boundless loyalty from the British tommies in that glamorous, sternly romantic force "His Majesty's army in India...
...Churchill rested at Belfast, the guest of Premier Sir James Craig of Ulster, he may well have recalled the day 14 years ago when Ulstermen rioted against the militant First Sea Lord whom they acclaimed in his peaceful guise of Chancellor last week...
...passage of the Home Rule bill a few months before the outbreak of the war. Redmond was deprived of the consummation of his triumph by the great events of August, 1914, and he saw the progress attained by years of unremitting effort lost through the stubborn resistance of the Ulstermen and the excesses of the Sinn Fein revolutionists. Unembittered by these reverses, Redmond from the first counselled complete Irish co-operation in the British Empire's fight against Prussian militarism, and maintained to the end his uncompromising hostility toward the pro-German factions in Ireland...