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Ulster
Day Outside Ulster While the fate of Ulster clearly lay in the hands of its population, some effort was made to accommodate Ulster folk no longer resident in their native land but eager to identify themselves with the great struggle which loomed ahead. Outside of Ulster, if men and women could provide proof of their place of birth, they were allowed to associate themselves with the Covenant. Signatures came from Dublin -- 2,000 men signed there -- and from all over Great Britain: Edinburgh, Glasgow, York, Liverpool, London, Manchester and Bristol. In all 24,217 "expatriates" signed: 19,162 men and 5,055 women.
Such was the enthusiasm of Ulster folk absent from their native land that they wished to identify with that land in the time of crisis. Not even the Atlantic could form a barrier. A letter from a passenger on the S.S. Lake Champlain explains how Ulster Day was celebrated aboard that ship and remarks on the puzzlement felt by the English. Attached to the letter are the signatures of 12 second-class passengers, four men and eight women.
The third-class passengers on the S.S. Lake Champlain got hold of the text of the Covenant, stuck it on a piece of paper and signed their names on the document thus created. In all there were 34 passengers in this class of Ulster extraction.
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