Word: unionistic
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Ulster Protestant politicians know this only too well and are rushing to woo the U.D.A. The love is not returned, however. The U.D.A. is a working-class movement and wants no truck with Unionist politicians who "let the Ulster people down." What the U.D.A. really fears is Ulster's being "sold out" to a united Ireland-and it swears it will fight that prospect to the death...
...Little known outside the Commons, Whitelaw became the leader of the Tories' liberal wing on almost every issue from Rhodesia to labor relations. He also was influential in persuading Prime Minister Heath to institute direct rule over Ulster-a step strongly opposed by right-wing Tories and their Unionist Party allies...
Embarking on what he privately admitted was a "frightening gamble," Whitelaw set up offices in gargoyled Stormont Castle, and held an exhaustive series of meetings with everyone from Unionist politicians to Catholic housewives whose admiration for the I.R.A. was diminishing under the endless violence. Visitors reported that the Scots-born Whitelaw had at least one Irish trait, "the gift of the gab." He proved it two weeks ago by persuading a party of masked Protestant vigilantes to unmask and be comfortable in his office...
Faulkner, who in pugnacious moments looks rather like a bull terrier, made an early reputation in Unionist politics as a right-winger, a staunch Orangeman and a fierce critic of the Roman Catholic Church. He was a strong and capable Home Affairs Minister, in charge of security, at the height of the I.R.A.'s 1956-62 border campaign against Northern Ireland. As Prime Minister, he offered Catholic M.P.s a larger share of parliamentary power, and named the first Catholic minister to a Unionist government in the province's history...
...over the misgivings of the Conservative government in London. Within seven months, that blunder forced Britain to step in and take over Ulster's security. But Faulkner's decision to resign rather than accede to British demands reinforced his hold, for the time being at least, on Unionist party politics...