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Foreign News
September 24, 1913
The Calumet News
Calumet, Houghton County, Michigan
What is this article about?
Reports growing unrest in Ulster over Irish home rule, with Lord Loreburn warning of possible civil war and calling for a conference. Ulstermen plan provisional government and arm a 100,000-strong volunteer force, amid accusations of rebellion hidden from American public.
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ULSTER IN REVOLT?
Things have a bad look in Ulster,
and even that staunch liberal home
ruler, Lord Loreburn, has lost nerve
and proposes a joint conference of par-
ties to discuss the situation.
With men like Lord Loreburn frankly
admitting the possibility of civil
war in the north of Ireland as the
immediate sequel of home rule, it is high
time for wiseacres in America to stop
pooh-poohing the "Ulster will fight
and Ulster will be right" business as
all bluff.
The Ulstermen may be
wrong about this question, but any-
body who fancies
they are
mere
blow hards knows very little of the
breed.
The Ulster plan of campaign seems
to include the setting up of a provis-
ional government for the province as
counterpoise to a home rule parlia-
ment at Dublin, and there is a great
recruiting and drilling of a volunteer
force (said to number 100,000) as the
physical backing of that government.
Is it all unionist politics-a Sir Ed-
ward Carson game to bluff the govern-
ment? Lord Loreburn thinks not, for
he wants a parley on the situation.
Lord Northcliffe (not much of a pol-
tician, but a great publisher) says in
an interview
Home rule is a matter of immense
interest to American newspapers be-
cause of the great interest in the Irish
question in the United States. That the
north of Ireland is arming and drilling
and that the government does not
dare take action in what is already
practically a state of rebellion are
facts that seem to be entirely hidden
from the American public.
The arming and drilling are pro-
ceeding night and day, and it would
seem that an outbreak might be ex-
pected any moment.
The Irish are first class fighting men,
whether Protestant or Catholic,
whether of Dublin or Belfast militia-
tion. With the enactment and the
consequent necessity of enforcement
of home rule, the Irish question will
take on a new aspect that may be a
very serious one for England, who
would hardly relish the job of coercing
Irishmen in revolt, not against the old
the with England, but against the cut-
the o that te
Things have a bad look in Ulster,
and even that staunch liberal home
ruler, Lord Loreburn, has lost nerve
and proposes a joint conference of par-
ties to discuss the situation.
With men like Lord Loreburn frankly
admitting the possibility of civil
war in the north of Ireland as the
immediate sequel of home rule, it is high
time for wiseacres in America to stop
pooh-poohing the "Ulster will fight
and Ulster will be right" business as
all bluff.
The Ulstermen may be
wrong about this question, but any-
body who fancies
they are
mere
blow hards knows very little of the
breed.
The Ulster plan of campaign seems
to include the setting up of a provis-
ional government for the province as
counterpoise to a home rule parlia-
ment at Dublin, and there is a great
recruiting and drilling of a volunteer
force (said to number 100,000) as the
physical backing of that government.
Is it all unionist politics-a Sir Ed-
ward Carson game to bluff the govern-
ment? Lord Loreburn thinks not, for
he wants a parley on the situation.
Lord Northcliffe (not much of a pol-
tician, but a great publisher) says in
an interview
Home rule is a matter of immense
interest to American newspapers be-
cause of the great interest in the Irish
question in the United States. That the
north of Ireland is arming and drilling
and that the government does not
dare take action in what is already
practically a state of rebellion are
facts that seem to be entirely hidden
from the American public.
The arming and drilling are pro-
ceeding night and day, and it would
seem that an outbreak might be ex-
pected any moment.
The Irish are first class fighting men,
whether Protestant or Catholic,
whether of Dublin or Belfast militia-
tion. With the enactment and the
consequent necessity of enforcement
of home rule, the Irish question will
take on a new aspect that may be a
very serious one for England, who
would hardly relish the job of coercing
Irishmen in revolt, not against the old
the with England, but against the cut-
the o that te
What sub-type of article is it?
Rebellion Or Revolt
Political
What keywords are associated?
Ulster Revolt
Home Rule
Civil War Risk
Volunteer Force
Provisional Government
Irish Question
What entities or persons were involved?
Lord Loreburn
Sir Edward Carson
Lord Northcliffe
Where did it happen?
Ulster
Foreign News Details
Primary Location
Ulster
Key Persons
Lord Loreburn
Sir Edward Carson
Lord Northcliffe
Outcome
possibility of civil war; volunteer force of 100,000; potential provisional government in ulster
Event Details
Unrest in Ulster over home rule; Lord Loreburn proposes conference due to civil war risk; Ulstermen plan provisional government and arm volunteer force; arming and drilling ongoing, seen as state of rebellion; interest in American newspapers