The first collection of PRONI images to be made available on Flickr are
wedding and family group portraits taken by the Allison Photographic
Studios, Armagh, between circa 1900 and 1955.
Also Home Rule
Ulster’s Solemn
League and Covenant
Being convinced in our consciences
that Home Rule would be disastrous to the material well-being of Ulster
as well as of the whole of Ireland, subversive of our civil and
religious freedom, destructive of our citizenship and perilous to the
unity of the Empire, we, whose names are underwritten, men of Ulster,
loyal subjects of his Gracious Majesty King George V, humbly relying on
the God whom our fathers in days of stress and trial confidently
trusted, do hereby pledge ourselves in solemn Covenant throughout this
our time of threatened calamity to stand by one another in defending for
ourselves and our children our cherished position of equal citizenship
in the United Kingdom and in using all means which may be found
necessary to defeat the present conspiracy to set up a Home Rule
Parliament in Ireland. And in the event of such a Parliament being
forced upon us we further solemnly and mutually pledge ourselves to
refuse to recognise its authority. In sure confidence that God will
defend the right we hereto subscribe our names. And further, we
individually declare that we have not already signed this Covenant.
Ulster Day, Saturday 28th, September, 1912.
God Save the King
