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The Irish Unionist Alliance (IUA), also known as the Irish Unionist Party, Irish Unionists or simply the Unionists, was a unionist political party founded in Ireland in 1891 from a merger of the Irish Conservative Party and the Irish Loyal and Patriotic Union (ILPU) to oppose plans for home rule for Ireland within the United Kingdom ...
Unionism in Ireland is a political tradition that professes loyalty to the crown of the United Kingdom and to the union it represents with England, Scotland and Wales.
The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) is a unionist political party in Northern Ireland. The party was founded as the Ulster Unionist Council in 1905, emerging from the Irish Unionist Alliance in Ulster. Under Edward Carson, it led unionist opposition to the Irish Home Rule movement.
It was founded by Edward Lee towards the end of the 19th Century. A liberal unionist, he was sympathetic to workers' rights. His great grandson Michael Lee describes his family as pragmatic...
This chapter examines Irish unionism. For much of the first three quarters of the 19th century, Irish electoral politics were dominated by parties, Conservative and Liberal, which were united by a shared commitment to union.
For a long time, they were represented by the Irish Unionist Alliance (IUA), which was led by mainly southern peers and was headed by Lord Midleton. 1 Midleton’s authority came from the fact that he had the support of ‘all the peers and men of the greatest commercial strength like Lord Iveagh’. 2 The prospect of partition, however, split ...
16 de dic. de 2013 · Popular loyalism, defined from the 1790s, and evangelical religion, particularly significant from the 1820s onwards, were key agents for unity within Irish Protestantism and subsequently Irish Unionism. A modified Patriotism and Whiggery were also relevant to the intellectual hinterland of the Unionist movement.
