Craigavon, James Craig, 1st Viscount

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Craigavon, James Craig, 1st Viscount (krāgăv`ən), 1871–1940, Irish statesman. He worked with Edward Carson Carson, Edward Henry Carson, Baron, 1854–1935, Irish politician. After a successful legal career in Dublin, he was elected to the British Parliament (1892) and called to the English bar (1893).
..... Click the link for more information. in rousing the Protestants of Ulster against Home Rule Home Rule, in Irish and English history, political slogan adopted by Irish nationalists in the 19th cent. to describe their objective of self-government for Ireland.
..... Click the link for more information. in the crisis preceding World War I. He organized the Ulster Volunteers to resist any attempt to enforce Home Rule. In 1921 he became prime minister of the newly established government of Northern Ireland, a position he held until his death. He was created a viscount in 1927.

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