Parkinson - Friends in high places: Ulsters resistance to Irish Home Rule, 1912-14

Acknowledgements

I would like to express my gratitude to representatives of a number of organisations and to several individuals who assisted me during a three-year period of research for this book. Staff at the various libraries I visited in Northern Ireland and Great Britain were courteous and helpful. In Belfast, I found the Northern Ireland Political Collection (pre-1960 section) at the Linen Hall Library invaluable and would like to thank staff there for their support (especially John Killen for his advice on the political cartoons of this period). Further help was given at the Belfast Central Library (particularly its newspaper section) and at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland.

In England, I visited the Imperial War Museum (where Sir Henry Wilsons papers are housed), the House of Lords Record Office (where I consulted the Bonar Law and Willoughby de Broke papers), the British Newspaper Library at Colindale in London and the Bodleian Library in Oxford (where I gained access to the Milner papers). Funding for my travel and accommodation was provided by Northern Irelands Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure, and I would like to give thanks to Nelson McCausland and Paul Sweeney for their assistance. Additional funding for my travel in England and for the purchase of reproduction rights for most of the images in this book was provided by the Taoiseachs Office in Dublin, and I would like to thank John Kennedy and Eimear Healy for their help. Thanks also must go to Ray Mullan and his colleagues from the Northern Ireland Community Relations Council for their promotion of this book (through the Decade of Anniversaries lecture series) and for financial assistance provided to aid publication. PRONI were especially helpful, granting me access to important textual material and illustrations (especially from the Ulster Unionist Council archives) and providing advice on copyright and reproduction of several of these. I would like to acknowledge the help of Aileen McLintock, David Huddleston, Stephen Scarth and Ian Montgomery and I am grateful to the deputy keeper of records and the various depositors for allowing me to quote from some of these sources.

The bulk of the illustrations in this book are photographs from the Belfast Telegraphs archives and I am obliged to that paper for facilitating their reproduction here (especially to Paul Carson, the Telegraphs ever-helpful librarian). Two further illustrations have been used and I would like to thank Punch magazine for forwarding these cartoons and for granting me permission to reproduce them.

I have also received assistance and support from many individuals. Academics who have helped me include Professor D.G. Boyce, Professor Graham Walker and Dr amon Phoenix. amon has been particularly generous with his time and effort. I would like to thank Fintan Mullan, William Roulston, and Tim Smyth of the Ulster Historical Foundation; the designer Wendy Dunbar of Dunbar Design; and the copyeditor Alicia McAuley, for their professionalism during the editing and design stage of this work.

Finally, I would like to express my thanks to my family for their moral and practical support over the last three years. This book is dedicated to Janet, Nick, Katherine and Tom.

APPENDIX 1

Chronology