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Irish Unionist Alliance

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As unionist parties vie for votes, the biggest threat to unionism may come from without

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Alliance Party leader urges DUP to 'step up to the plate' in Northern Ireland

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Alliance Party leader says it's 'a shameful day for the DUP'

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Irish Unionist Alliance

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Key issue for voters is working Stormont Executive - Alliance Party

The Irish Unionist Alliance (IUA), also known as the Irish Unionist Party or simply the Unionists, was a unionist political party founded in Ireland in 1891 from the Irish Loyal and Patriotic Union to oppose plans for Home Rule for Ireland within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The party was led for much of its existence by Colonel Edward James Saunderson and later by William St John Brodrick, Earl of Midleton. In total, eighty-six members of the House of Lords affiliated themselves with the Irish Unionist Alliance, although its broader membership was relatively small.
  • Foundation 

  • 1891–1914 

  • Division (1914–1922) 

  • Irish Free State 

  • Northern Ireland 

  • Southern Unionists 

  • Ulster Unionists 

  • Leadership 

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