The UVF Cavalry
The Ulster Volunteer Force that owed its origins to wide-scale mobilisation in the years prior to the third Home Rule Bill, and then official constitution in …….
North Antrim Volunteers
Given its status as Ulster’s most Protestant and Unionist County, it would come as no suprise that the campaign and organisation against Home Rule within Antrim’s …….
Our Brave Volunteers
County Armagh is plunged in grief for the many brave, patriotic sons of her Volunteer Battalion, who have fallen on the battlefield….. We are told their …….
The ‘First Shot in Down’
On Wednesday 26th June the latest in a series of Province wide lectures on the Ulster Volunteers took place, this time in the Mourne town of …….
Blood and Thunder… agitational music?
In 1985 the current Pope, the then Cardinal Ratzinger, delivered a lecture entitled ‘Liturgy and church music’ in which he described agitational music as a type …….
The women of the UVF
The period of the third Home Rule bill was a turbulent one throughout the United Kingdom. It is somewhat ironic however that in Ireland during 1914 …….
Dungannon Volunteers reincarnated
In 1782 Dungannon hosted what became known as the Dungannon Convention, where delegates from 147 corps of Volunteers across Ulster met to oppose English intervention in …….
The Dublin ‘UVF’
The story of militant anti- Home Rule Irish Unionism in Munster, Leinster and Connacht during the Home Rule Crisis has largely been one that has remained …….
A Force for Ulster
Since the very first home Rule Bill of 1886 Unionism had been drilling and arming itself, indeed several County Armagh Unionists were unsuccessfully prosecuted for the …….
Monaghan Unionists, a people betrayed
The period of the Home Rule Crisis, contrary to the belief of many, is not a clear cut black and white tale. During those turbulent years …….