UVF English Brigade

“English Brigade Ulster Volunteer Force.” “England and Ulster – the ties that bind.” “United we stand.”

“Let our flag run out straight in the wind/The old red shall be floated again./When the ranks that are thin shall be thinned/When the names that were twenty are ten.” [from Swinburne’s A Song In Time Of Order which was also used as a socialist song]

On the left are the words from William Blake’s poem, which also serve as the lyrics to the hymn Jerusalem.

The images along the bottom illustrate the connection between Northern Ireland and England. From left to right: Edward Carson in Liverpool in 1912; 10,00 pledges from Liverpool men; Carson addressing 100,000 people in Hyde Park, London; a banner reading “City of London supports loyal Ulster”; “Field Marshall Sir Henry Wilson opens the Ulster Tower in 1921. Sir Henry was killed by the IRA in 1922 at his home in London”; GS Cather, VC winner with the Ulster Division; evacuees to Liverpool in 1973.

Spier’s Place, middle Shankill, west Belfast, to the left of A Fisherman, An Entertainer, A Shankill Road Man.