Friends in High Places: Ulster's resistance to Irish Home Rule, 1912-14

On the eve of the centenary of perhaps the most significant event in Ulster during these two years – the signing of Ulster’s Solemn League and Covenant – Friends in High Places: Ulster's resistance to Irish Home Rule, 1912-14 tells the story of Ulster’s organised resistance to the Third Home Rule Bill, and in particular assesses the nature and degree of success of unionists’ political and propaganda campaigns.

The island of Ireland was on the cusp of Home Rule towards the end of the Edwardi...