HOYFM.ACL2024.42 - Scrapbook Collection

Ulster Unionism (1860s-1912)

Reference code: HOYFM.ACL2024.42/3
Level of description: Series
Title: Ulster Unionism (1860s-1912)
Scope and content: Newspaper cuttings book containing coverage of Edward Carson’s death in 1935 by various agencies including the Belfast Telegraph, The Northern Whig, The Belfast Post, The Belfast Newsletter, The Irish News, Belfast Morning News, The Daily Mail, The Daily Express, The Manchester Guardian, The News Chronicle, and The Daily Sketch; subjects all include his life, his work, his funeral, and his political influence. A scrapbook with material from the late 19th or early 20th century with full newspaper issues. Contents: a photograph of staff at The Children’s Special Service Mission; ‘The Irish Presbyterian Volume III, No. 6 (June 1897); prints of a romantic painting, a landscape of Balmoral Castle with a print of a girl in the woods on the back; sayings cards; a copy of ‘The Witness’ issue March 27th, 1896; ‘The Witness’ issue January 24th, 1896; prints ‘How’s Business’ and ‘Slack!’ by Ludovici; a ‘Spanish Evangelisation Society Occasional Paper No. 1 (1896); The Northern Whig, issue October 27th, 1897; The Belfast News-letter, issues December 1st and 2nd, 1899; May 5th, 1986.

A scrapbook belonging to Dr. James King Kerr, Justice of the Peace, Alderman of Belfast Corporation, and prominent North Down Unionist. Contents: a letter from Thomas Blain asking to call upon Mr. Ireland (1872); drawings about teaching Irish Catholics cricket as a means of civilising them; ‘notes of some epidemics which have recently occurred in... County Tyrone’ written by Kerr (1876); a premium from the Royal Belfast Academical Institution; miscellaneous newspaper fragments on statements (1880s); a piece on Dr. King Kerr’s candidature for the Victoria Ward election; ‘The Roman Catholic University Question’ newspaper article; a booklet for the ‘Ulster Unionist Convention (1892); Ulster Defence Union’s delegate card; press opinion-Unionist journals; Ulster Defence Union documents; newspaper photographs concerning the gathering of Ulstermen and their protest against Home Rule; a newspaper page on the first signatures of the Ulster Covenant; Dr. King Kerr’s signed copy of the Ulster Solemn League and Covenant (1912); newspaper clippings of Edward Carson; pages on nurses in the Ulster Army; newspaper coverage on the U.V.F; a constitution for the Presbyterian Unionist Voters’ Association; invite and menu of the luncheon for King George’s visit to Ulster; newspaper coverage of an election; coverage on the opening of an infectious diseases hospital; photographs of the opening; article on the meeting of health committees; Belfast Health Commission minutes of evidence (Mar. 5th-6th, 1907); newspaper clippings on meetings of the Belfast Council; article on ‘Health Hysteria’ in Belfast (1908); supplement cartoons on ‘the public health committee’s burden (about consumption) (1906); a caricature of Dr. King Kerr; newspaper coverage on Dr. King Kerr’s portrait being added to Belfast City Hall (1908); miscellaneous correspondence; King Kerr’s copy of the proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine.