Half a million sign the Ulster Covenant
1912 · Event
On 'Ulster Day', 471,000 unionist men and women sign a covenant — some famously in their own blood — pledging to use 'all means which may be found necessary' to defeat Home Rule for Ireland. Loyalist Ulster has just declared itself ungovernable from Dublin.
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