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466: 449:. Despite the prominence of many influential Southern Unionists in the party, Ulster remained the core of the IUA's support base. Ulster unionism was linked strongly to the former Conservatives, with their strong Orange Order links, rather than to the former Liberals, who had made some effort to encourage cross-denominational support for their unionist stance. The strength of the northern unionist wing played a vital role in the shift of power in the pro-union movement to Conservative and Orange elements. While the link between the Orange lodges and the new Unionist associations did introduce a populist, democratic element into unionist politics, it also served to reinforce the sectarian nature of unionism in the north. In 1905, this particular brand of unionism within the IUA led to the establishment of the 375: 1117:. Many Ulster Unionists were also drawn from the province's prosperous middle class, who had benefited greatly from heavy industrialisation in the region. As such, many in Northern Ireland supported unionism due to the industrial growth of Belfast after 1850, which depended on the economic integrity of the Union. The Protestant religious composition and concentration, motivation and ethos of the Ulster Unionists made its wing of the IUA distinct from unionists in the south, and a fear of 453:(UUC). Although Ulster Unionists were still within the broader framework of the Irish Unionist Alliance, the Ulster party began to develop its own distinct organisational structures and political goals. From 1907, the IUA's political activity was organised by the Joint Committee of the Unionist Associations of Ireland (JCUAI). This body sought to coordinate the IUA's election and lobbying activity, whilst recognising the distinct differences between the northern and southern parties. 46: 1062:. As a group, Southern Unionist landowners were richer than their fellow Irishmen by about £90 million by 1914, which would either stay in the Irish economy, given a favourable political arrangement, or leave if the outcome appeared too uncertain or too radical. This temporarily gave them a voice far beyond their number in the Irish electorate. Some of the more progressive supporters of the IUA attempted to introduce a moderate form of devolution through the 707: 934: 502:, to complain that southern concerns were being ignored. Several large unionist demonstrations took place in Dublin in early 1914, in which protesters complained as much about the Ulster Unionists as the Irish nationalists. Despite these internal difficulties, between September 1911 and July 1914 the Joint Committee of the Unionist Associations of Ireland continued its campaign across the 973:, a gentleman's club in Dublin. The electoral support base of the IUA in southern Ireland was largely drawn from its Protestant population, many of whom were farmers, small business owners or Church of Ireland clergymen. In 1913, the IUA had a southern core of 683 members, with approximately 300,000 supporters spread across the three southern provinces. In March 1919 457:
in the hands of Southern Unionists. This led to the unionist movement gradually becoming 'Ulsterised' from 1910, which marginalised many more moderate unionists in the south. Even so, in 1913, as the Third Home Rule Bill passed through Parliament, the Alliance appears to have become increasingly popular in the south and records show an increase in membership.
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order to resist Home Rule or partition, and were generally placid in their politics. Lord Midleton described Southern Unionists as "lacking political insight and cohesion" and "restricting themselves to the easy task of attending meetings in Dublin". In discussing problems of civic morality in 2011 in the Republic of Ireland, former
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Southern Unionists are regarded as having been considerably less confrontational than their Ulster neighbours. They were always in the minority in southern Ireland, and many had close personal connections with figures in nationalist politics. As a group, they never threatened or organised violence in
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The prominence of the Ulster Unionist Council quickly grew thanks to the strong unionist sentiment in Ulster. From 1910, it became the dominant force and focus of resistance in the Irish unionist community. The JCUAI was effectively controlled by Ulstermen, while the IUA's leadership remained largely
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unionists began to openly disagree. At a meeting of the party on Molesworth Street, Dublin, on 24 January 1919, Lord Midleton proposed a motion to the party which would have denied Ulster Unionists a say on government proposals affecting the south of Ireland. The motion was defeated, with a majority
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told the House of Commons that the supporting population was "about 350,000". The IUA never achieved "mass party" status in the south. Its local branches varied in strength, and generally followed geographic patterns of Protestant population density. As a result, the IUA's support base was severely
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Note: Results from Ireland for the UK general elections contested by the Irish Unionist Alliance. These figures do not include MPs elected for the Liberal Unionists, who were officially a separate party. IUA MPs sat with the Liberal Unionists and Conservatives at Westminster, and were often simply
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Despite early hopes among some unionists that the IUA would expand the unionist presence across Ireland, the party failed to make any major electoral gains in the six subsequent general elections. In the south of Ireland, the IUA consistently won only the double seat representing the graduates of
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By 1914, the conflict of interest between the unionists in southern Ireland and those in Ulster was wracking the IUA. It was known that the passage of a Home Rule Bill for Ireland was becoming increasingly likely, and as a result many Southern Unionists began to seek a political compromise which
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In Ulster, the IUA built upon solid unionist electoral foundations and became the dominant political force in much of the province. In the north and east of Ulster, unionists consistently won seats, often unopposed. In the three counties of Ulster which would later become part of the
1167:, a former Conservative Member of Parliament, who was most active in attempting to create an all-Ireland unionist movement. Towards the end of the party's existence, leadership became fractured between the northern and southern unionist movements within the alliance. 417:, the IUA sent 278 workers to British constituencies to assist the Conservative candidates, distributing almost three million leaflets across England. It was during that this time that a large number of Conservative MPs married into Irish Southern Unionist families. 474:
would see their interests protected. Many unionists in the south became strongly opposed to any plan to partition the island, as they knew that it would leave them isolated from the unionist-majority areas. Several prominent Southern Unionists, such as
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of both southern and northern unionists rejecting the plan. Ulster Unionists believed that the motion would have the effect of dividing the unionist cause. The party split anyway, with Lord Midleton and senior southern leaders forming the break-away
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basis. The party's founders hoped that this would coordinate the electoral and lobbying activities of unionists across Ireland. Prior to 1891, unionists had seen considerable electoral losses across southern Ireland at the hands of the pro-Home Rule
663:(1922–23) because of his involvement in the Irish Senate. The IUA helped form the Southern Irish Loyalist Relief Association to assist war refugees and claim compensation for damage to property. From 1921 IUA voters began to support the mainstream 273:. Its MPs took the Conservative whip at Westminster, and its members were often described as 'Conservatives' or 'Conservative Unionists', even though much of its support came from former Liberal voters. Among its most prominent members were the 1123:(the worry about a Catholic-controlled Irish parliament) dominated the political discourse. These factors made Ulster Unionists noticeably more confrontational and violent in their political rhetoric and action. In the tense period between the 694:(UUP; previously known as the Ulster Unionist Council) continued to dominate domestic politics. The party would hold its powerful position in the unionist community for much of the rest of the twentieth century, until the rise of the 354:, founded a decade earlier. It was deemed necessary for southern and northern supporters of the Union to more formally unite their efforts. At this stage, the majority of unionists in all parts of Ireland were opposed to the 1055:. They were concerned that a new home rule state might create new taxes between them and their markets in Britain and the Empire, that would add to their costs and probably reduce sales and therefore employment. 3354: 1159:
The Irish Unionist Alliance had no formal method of electing and deposing of its leadership, and leaders of the IUA were more informally 'acknowledged' by other prominent figures. The party's first leader was
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became more likely, Southern Unionists (those unionists outside of nine-county Ulster) formed numerous political movements in an attempt to find a solution to the "Irish Question". Among these were the
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in 1900. In local elections, the party maintained a geographically broader representation, although failed to win many new voters. Unlike in Ulster, the anti-Home Rulers were a scattered minority.
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The leadership of southern unionism was dominated by wealthy, well-educated men who wanted to live in Ireland, felt British and Irish, and who had Irish roots. Many were members of the privileged
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proving to be particularly divisive. Many unionists outside Ulster became resigned to the political necessity of Home Rule, while unionists in Ulster established a separate organisation, the
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that same day. Many ordinary members of the southern IUA (Protestant farmers, shopkeepers and clergymen) initially stayed with the remaining rump of the IUA in the south, led by
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in 1920), resented the growing dominance of Ulstermen in the party. Lord Midleton and his supporters feared that the Ulster wing of the party (now more formally organised as the
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Although their numbers were small, a considerable amount of industry in Southern Ireland had been developed indigenously by Southern Unionist supporters. These included
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Barberis, Peter, John McHugh and Mike Tyldesley, 2005. Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organisations. London: Continuum International Publishing Group.
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Many Southern Unionist landowners had inherited large estates. From 1903, many of these were persuaded to sell land to their tenant farmers under the
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the party won 20.6% of the Irish vote and 21 seats. In 1893, the party achieved a major success when it joined the Conservatives to defeat the
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The 1918 general election result in Ireland, showing the clear dominance of the IUA in Ulster, relative to its weakness in the rest of Ireland
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in the three southern provinces on a common platform of maintenance of the union. The IUA united this movement with unionists in the northern
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remarked that before 1922: "In Ireland a strong civic sense did exist – but mainly amongst Protestants and especially Anglicans".
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on the other. Despite this, the Alliance won its largest number of seats, with the IUA candidate managing to win a surprise victory in
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limited to certain sections of the population, described as usually being "Protestant, anglicised, propertied and aristocratic".
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than in the south. Although often led by aristocrats, the IUA attracted high levels of support in some of the poorer areas of
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G. K. Peatling, ‘The last defence of the Union? The Round Table and Ireland, 1910–1925’, in Andrea Bosco and Alex May, eds.,
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affiliated themselves with the Irish Unionist Alliance, although its broader membership among Irish voters outside
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The split effectively ended the realistic electoral chances of the Irish Unionist Alliance in what became the
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The IUA became wracked by internal disagreement during the early twentieth century, with the issue of the
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alongside the Conservative Party. This was especially the case in the two general elections of 1910. In
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Colin Reid, 'Stephen Gwynn and the Failure of Constitutional Nationalism in Ireland, 1919 – 1921',
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Ireland and the Federal Solution: The Debate over the United Kingdom Constitution, 1870–1920
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Throughout the period, members of the IUA campaigned not only in Ireland, but also in
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in an attempt to bring about an understanding on the implementation of the suspended
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The Two Unions: Ireland, Scotland, and the Survival of the United Kingdom, 1707–2007
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the party won 32.2% of the vote in Ireland, most of its votes coming from Ulster.
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seats would occasionally fall to them. The party also won a surprise victory in
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A History of the Ulster Unionist Party: Protest, Pragmastism and Pessimism
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A History of the Ulster Unionist Party: Protest, Pragmastism and Pessimism
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Defenders of the Union: A Survey of British and Irish Unionism Since 1801
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1998 Review of "Crisis and Decline; the fate of the Southern Unionists"
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The Irish Unionist Alliance was founded in 1891 by the members of the
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The Round Table: the empire/commonwealth and British foreign policy
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Debate on the Local Government (Ireland) Bill, 24 March 1919
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The Last Gasp of Southern Unionism: Lord Ashtown of Woodlawn
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Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland after partition
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Organisations associated with the Conservative Party (UK)
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Ulster Unionist Party Presidents and General Secretaries
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three formerly loyalist businessmen were elected as the
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class, who valued their cultural affiliations with the
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Current political parties in the Republic of Ireland
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Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801–1922
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Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801–1922
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Britain and Ireland: From Home Rule to Independence
1399:(Cambridge University Press, 11 October 2012), 180. 441:, the unionists failed to come close to winning in 163: 151: 130: 120: 106: 88: 70: 52: 34: 1386:(Reactions to Irish Nationalism, 1865–1914), 374. 1360:(Reactions to Irish Nationalism, 1865–1914), 385. 2307:Sligo–Leitrim Independent Socialist Organisation 1264:(1919–1922), as leader of the Southern Unionists 651:. Amongst others, Sir Horace Plunkett's home in 517:against the Ulster Unionists during the 1917–18 1318:(Manchester University Press, 4 September 2004) 953:". They were generally members of the Anglican 1936:The Home rule bill in committee, session, 1893 1756:(Bloomsbury Publishing, 1 July 1987), 370–371. 1345:Joseph Chamberlain: A Most Radical Imperialist 1066:. Many Southern Unionists were members of the 594:voted to leave the Free State two days later. 2735: 2190:Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist–Leninist) 1975: 1457:Dividing Ireland: World War One and Partition 1446:(Gill & Macmillan Ltd, 28 September 2012) 1444:Dublin: A City in Turmoil: Dublin 1919 – 1921 1300:(Oxford University Press, 19 March 2014), 52. 1258:in 1920), as leader of the Southern Unionists 564:Although the IUA hoped to play a part in the 8: 269:to campaign to prevent the passage of a new 1428:, reported in the party AGM, 25 April 1913. 1298:The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History 529:, which showed the rising influence of the 509:The internal divisions simmered during the 240:United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 3360:Conservative parties in the United Kingdom 3335:Political parties in pre-partition Ireland 2742: 2728: 2720: 2168: 2006: 1982: 1968: 1960: 1882:(Bloomsbury Publishing, 1 July 1987), 376. 1869:(Bloomsbury Publishing, 1 July 1987), 369. 1721:(Bloomsbury Publishing, 1 July 1987), 384. 1517:(Bloomsbury Publishing, 1 July 1987), 386. 1504:(Bloomsbury Publishing, 1 July 1987), 378. 1280:B. 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Against the backdrop of the subsequent 3390:Political parties disestablished in 1922 3365:Right-wing parties in the United Kingdom 2185:British and Irish Communist Organisation 1861: 1859: 1857: 1496: 1494: 1467: 1465: 1438: 1436: 1434: 1407: 1405: 1174: 2121:Irish Metropolitan Conservative Society 1748: 1746: 1339: 1337: 1310: 1308: 1306: 1273: 633:the 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl 513:. Southern Unionist members sided with 3370:History of the Conservative Party (UK) 2636:National Socialist Irish Workers Party 957:, although there were several notable 919:called 'Conservatives' or 'Unionists'. 881:Liberal government in hung Parliament 856:Liberal government in hung Parliament 250:. 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Index

Irish Unionist Party

Leader
Colonel Saunderson
The 11th Baron Farnham
Irish Conservatives
Irish Loyal and Patriotic Union
Ulster Unionist Party
Ideology
Conservatism
Irish unionism
Anglo-Irish
Political position
Right-wing
Conservative Party
Politics of Ireland
Political parties
Elections
unionist
Ireland
Irish Conservative Party
Irish Loyal and Patriotic Union
home rule
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Edward James Saunderson
St John Brodrick, 1st Earl of Midleton
House of Lords
Ulster
Conservative Party
Liberal Unionists

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