The Rebellions of Ulster Obscured History Productions

The fate of Sir Edward Carson whose memory is expunged effectively by the British Political Establishment for the phenomenon of the defiance which he represented - yet whose legacy lies in the four nations constituting the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the continuance of the Union Flag in it's present form. Small beer indeed for the King's Counsel who represented Oscar Wilde and was the inspiration for Sir Robert Morton in Terrence Rattigan's play, " The Wilmslow Boy" yet he is today virtually vanished from history.

The truce is declared and Captain James Craig refuses to be drawn into the negotiations which culminate in the Anglo-Irish Treaty. The artifice of the Boundary Commission is intended to dismantle the Northern Irish State. IRA forces are unleashed on the North until the Irish Civil War intervenes. Carson thunders at Conservative betrayal of his Ulster Unionists.

The Easter Rising and the War of Independence. Sectarian conflict convulses Ulster. The rebirth of the State of Northern Ireland. The new Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Captain James Craig clandestinely meets with Eamon De Valera.

The clock count down to Civil War in Ireland and Britain - Imperial Germany watches. The King intervenes but negotiations prove fruitless. The Great War comes as a stroke of luck to Prime Minister Herbert Asquith.

The gun running operation rebalances the argument allowing Sir Edward Carson to face a check mated Winston Churchill in the House of Commons from a position of strength. Civil War seems a certainty.

The angry and fractious debates continue in the fallout in the wake of the attempted coercion of Ulster. The progress of the gun running plot.