'Bravo, Ulster! Unloading the guns at Bangor Pier', 1914

Postcard, 'Historic Events Series', 'No. 5.'.

Determined to resist Irish Home Rule, Ulster unionists formed the Ulster Volunteer Force in 1913. In response, Irish nationalists established the Irish Volunteers and Irish Citizen Army. Short of weapons these paramilitary groups smuggled arms into Ireland and prepared for conflict.

In April 1914 large shipments of rifles and ammunition from Germany were landed at Larne, Donaghadee and Bangor to arm the Ulster Volunteer Force.