of clerical influence, 10

Ramsay, Sir W., signs the British Covenant, 170
Ranfurly, Earl of, organises the Ulster Loyalist Union, 30, 37;
member of the Unionist Council, 35
Raphoe, Bishop of, member of the Irish Convention, 258, 260-262
Rawlinson, J.F.P., at Belfast, 81
Reade, R.H., 35
Reading, Mr. Asquith at, 24;
election, 155
Redistribution Act, 275
Redmond, Capt., 275
Redmond, John, 174;
on the national movement, 7;
policy, 22;
on Home Rule, 27, 54;
with Mr. W. Churchill in Belfast, 63, 68;
opinion of Sir E. Carson's speech, 133;
protests against Amending Bill, 222;
at Buckingham Palace Conference, 227;
conditional offer of help in the war, 231, 233;
tribute to, 239;
patriotism, 239;
refuses office, 242;
at Dublin, 249;
on the exclusion of Ulster, 250;
manifesto, 254;
at the Irish Convention, 260-262;
death, 262;
on the condition of Ireland, 298
Redmond, Major W., his speech in the House, 253;
killed in the war, 253
Reform Club, Belfast, 122, 124, 191
Reid, Whitelaw, 274
Renan, E., on the root of nationality, 2
_Reynolds's Newspaper_, 89
Richardson, Gen. Sir George, Commander-in-Chief of the U.V.F., 161, 197;
career, 161;
characteristics, 162;
at Belfast, 162, 217;
reviews the U.V.F., 163-165
Rifles, seized by Government, 161, 195;
purchase of, 198;
packing, 201;
landed in Ulster, 219
Roberts, F.M. Earl, 130, 188;
letter to Col. Hickman, 161, 195;
signs British Covenant, 170;
congratulations to Sir E. Carson, 220;
on the result of coercing Ulster, 224
Robertson, Rt. Hon. J.M., Secretary to the Board of Trade,
on fiscal autonomy for Ireland, 76;
at Newcastle, 153
Rochdale, Unionist Association at, 99
Roe, Owen, 7
Roman Catholics, Irish, disloyalty 9;
character of the priest, 10;
methods of enforcing obedience, 10-12
Rosebery, Earl of, 15, 18;
at Glasgow, 22;
on the characteristics
of the Ulster race, 101
Rosslare, 220
Royal Irish Rifles, the 5th, 57
Russia, collapse of, 268
Russian rifles, 198

S.B., the Hebrew dealer in firearms, 197;
agreement with Major F.H. Crawford, 197-200;
honesty, 204
St. Aldwyn, Viscount, on the King's Prerogative, 151
Salisbury, Marq. of, at Belfast, 13, 81;
message from, 109;
views on Home Rule, 128
Salvidge, Mr., Alderman of Liverpool, 127, 128;
signs the British Covenant, 170
Samuel, Mr. Herbert, at Belfast, 54
Sanderson, Colonel, Chairman of the Ulster Parliam