Ulster Unionist Party

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Literary responses Augusta Gregory
AG later recalled that some Irish Nationalists were offended at her favourable representation of the police before the play was presented, yet after the production a Unionist paper criticized it for presenting the police as...

Timeline

June 1886-September 1886
During these months, Belfast was subjected to several bloody disturbances by Ulster Unionists .
January 1910
A general election was fought in Britain on the issue of Lloyd George 's people's budget of the previous year: the combined Conservative and [Ulster] Unionist Parties came in only two votes behind the Liberals
22 June 1921
George V opened the Northern Ireland parliament with a conciliatory speech as the British government initiated negotiations on the relations between Ireland proper and Ulster (the Six Counties in the North).
29 November 1999
The first multi-party, multi-denominational, or power-sharing executive in Northern Ireland (sometimes known as the Stormont government) was appointed in place of direct rule by Britain.