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25/05/2012
Historic NI Document To Be Sold At Auction
A historic Northern Irish document is set to be auctioned in London next month, but the Department of Culture has no plans to bid for it.
Jim Allister, leader of the Traditional Unionist Voice party, asked Minister of Culture, Sports and Leisure Carál Ní Chuilín to buy what is claimed to be the only copy of 1913 Ulster Proclamation of a Provisional Government.
But a spokesman for the department said: "The Public Record Office NI has no plans to bid for this document. Any procurement decision by National Museums would be a matter for its Board of Trustees."
The proclamation, dated 24 September 1913, declared a provisional government would be formed in Ulster if needed to resist the formation of a nationalist government in Dublin.
It formed part of unionist leader Sir Edward Carson's resistance to the Irish Home Rule Bill and was written the year after nearly 500,000 people signed the Ulster Solemn League and Covenant.
The proclamation is expected to fetch between £20,000 and £30,000.
Mr Allister said: "I think it would be shameful if such a milestone document, in terms of the evolution of Northern Ireland, was not acquired officially by the government of Northern Ireland and retained."
(NE/GK)
Jim Allister, leader of the Traditional Unionist Voice party, asked Minister of Culture, Sports and Leisure Carál Ní Chuilín to buy what is claimed to be the only copy of 1913 Ulster Proclamation of a Provisional Government.
But a spokesman for the department said: "The Public Record Office NI has no plans to bid for this document. Any procurement decision by National Museums would be a matter for its Board of Trustees."
The proclamation, dated 24 September 1913, declared a provisional government would be formed in Ulster if needed to resist the formation of a nationalist government in Dublin.
It formed part of unionist leader Sir Edward Carson's resistance to the Irish Home Rule Bill and was written the year after nearly 500,000 people signed the Ulster Solemn League and Covenant.
The proclamation is expected to fetch between £20,000 and £30,000.
Mr Allister said: "I think it would be shameful if such a milestone document, in terms of the evolution of Northern Ireland, was not acquired officially by the government of Northern Ireland and retained."
(NE/GK)
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