The Days of a Man 1:1914 



Mount Joy from Hamburg. Doggerel slogans were 

 much in evidence on posters and post cards: 



For it's north against rebel southern 



And Protestant against priest; 

 The bitter hate of centuries, 



All gathered to Death's feast. 



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So, if ere it comes to using the guns that then were run, 

 Who can foretell the ending of the ghastly war begun? 



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Ulster will be right, 

 Ulster will fight. 



And in Belfast cards showing Carson as a mailed 

 knight on horseback redeeming Ulster from the 

 papists were freely distributed. 



The Belfast Weekly News declared the gun- 

 running to be 



one of the most amazing events which ever occurred in the 

 checkered history of the United Kingdom. However prosaically 

 the record may be set down, it will send a thrill of amazement 

 through every man and woman reading the simple story; for 

 though unprecedented and so full of portent, the tale is merely 

 the recital of events which, though most complex in detail, 

 intricate in conception, and audacious in execution, worked 

 out without a hitch. 



Carson For this flagrant breach of law Sir Edward Carson 



and the was mainly responsible. In 1913 he visited Berlin 

 and, lunching with the Kaiser, assured him of Ulster's 

 determination to resist home rule --by force if need 

 be; the "die hards" would never submit to Catholic 

 domination. 1 This statement seems to have strongly 



1 I give this on the authority of Sir John McDonell. See pages 641-643. 



: 624 n 



