Carson

The anti-Carson Protestant Meeting, Ballymoney, 24 October 1913: A revolt in the Ulster Scots heartland against Unionism?

On 24 October 1913, during the third Home Rule crisis, a meeting in support of Home Rule was held in Ballymoney Town Hall. The stated purpose of the meeting was to "protest against the lawless policy of Carson". The meeting was the brainchild of Captain Jack White DSO, the son of Field Marshal Sir George White VC of Whitehall, near Ballymena. Jack White had served in the Gordon Highlanders and he had been ADC to his father when he was Governor of Gibraltar but then proceeded to lead a very varied and unconventional life. He travelled widely, worked at a variety of unskilled jobs and was attracted to the ideas of Bergson and Marx. In 1912 he returned to Ireland in search of the spirit of '98.  When in 1924 he published his autobiography, he entitled it Misfit.

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