This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Learn more

Ulster Hall

x
Ulster Hall
Ulster Hall
Ulster Hall
Ulster Hall
Ulster Hall
Ulster Hall
Ulster Hall
Ulster Hall
Ulster Hall
Ulster Hall
Ulster Hall
Ulster Hall
Ulster Hall
Ulster Hall
Ulster Hall
Ulster Hall
Ulster Hall
Ulster Hall
Ulster Hall
Ulster Hall
Ulster Hall
Ulster Hall
Ulster Hall
Ulster Hall
Ulster Hall
Phone:
+44 28 9033 4455

Hours:
SundayClosed
Monday10am - 5pm
Tuesday10am - 5pm
Wednesday10am - 5pm
Thursday10am - 5pm
Friday10am - 5pm
Saturday10am - 5pm


Ulster's Solemn League and Covenant, commonly known as the Ulster Covenant, was signed by nearly 500,000 people on and before 28 September 1912, in protest against the Third Home Rule Bill introduced by the British Government in the same year. Sir Edward Carson was the first person to sign the Covenant at Belfast City Hall with a silver pen, followed by Lord Londonderry , representatives of the Protestant churches, and then by Sir James Craig. The signatories, 471,414 in all, were all against the establishment of a Home Rule parliament in Dublin. The Ulster Covenant is immortalised in Rudyard Kipling's poem Ulster 1912. On 23 September 1912, the Ulster Unionist Council voted in favour of resolution pledging itself to the Covenant.The Covenant had two basic parts: the Covenant itself, which was signed by men, and the Declaration, which was signed by women. In total, the Covenant was signed by 237,368 men; the Declaration, by 234,046 women. Both the Covenant and Declaration are held by the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland . An online searchable database is available on the PRONI website. In January 1913, the Ulster Volunteers aimed to recruit 100,000 men aged from 17 to 65 who had signed the Covenant as a unionist militia.A British Covenant, similar to the Ulster Covenant in opposition to the Home Rule Bill, received two million signatures in 1914. September 28 is today known as 'Ulster day' to unionists.
Continue reading...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Attraction Location



Ulster Hall Videos

Shares

x

More Attractions in Belfast

x

Menu