On February 22, 1886, Lord Randolph Churchill, a leading Conservative politician and father of Winston Churchill, delivered a significant speech in Ulster. This address is famously associated with the phrase 'Ulster will fight, and Ulster will be right,' which became a rallying cry for Unionists opposing Irish Home Rule. Churchill's intervention was a calculated move to galvanize Protestant resistance in Ulster against William Gladstone's proposed Home Rule Bill. His words fueled sectarian tensions and had a profound impact on the political landscape of Ireland, contributing to the hardening of divisions that would shape the island's future for decades to come.
