Talk:James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is within the scope of the following WikiProjects:

WikiProject Belfast (Rated Start-Class)

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Belfast, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to the City of Belfast, Northern Ireland on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.

Start

This article has been rated as start-Class on the assessment scale.
(If you rated the article please give a short summary at comments to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article.)

High

This article is on a subject of High-importance for Belfast-related articles.

Article Grading:
The article has been rated for quality and/or importance but has no comments yet. If appropriate, please review the article and then leave comments here to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article and what work it will need.

WikiProject Belfast tasks:

WikiProject Ireland (Rated Start-Class)

Ireland Portal

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Ireland, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to Ireland on Wikipedia. For more information, or to get involved, visit the project page.

Start

This article has been rated as Start-Class on the Project's quality scale.
(If you rated the article please give a short summary at comments to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses.)

High

This article has been rated as High-importance on the priority scale.

WikiProject Northern Ireland (Rated Start-Class)

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Northern Ireland, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to Northern Ireland on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.

Start

Top

This article is on a subject of Top-importance for Northern Ireland-related articles.

WikiProject Northern Ireland tasks:

WikiProject Biography (Rated Start-Class)

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography. For more information, visit the project page.

Biography Portal

Start

This article has been rated as start-Class on the project's quality scale. [FAQ]

This article is supported by the Politics and government work group.

This article is supported by WikiProject Peerage.

This article is supported by WikiProject Baronetcies.

This article is supported by the Military work group.

An appropriate infobox may need to be added to this article, or the current infobox may need to be updated. Please refer to the list of biography infoboxes for further information.

WikiProject Unionism in Ireland (Rated Start-Class)

This article is within the scope of the Unionism in Ireland WikiProject, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Unionism in Ireland. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks.

Start

WikiProject Unionism in Ireland tasks:

Shortcut: WP:UIAT

Open tasks

Fill red links

Improve to featured status

Edward Carson
Lord Craigavon
David Trimble
Ian Paisley
James Molyneaux
Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough (very crap at the moment - barely anything on his political career!)
Brian Faulkner, Baron Faulkner of Downpatrick (needs references footnoted)
Norman Stronge (areas for improvement noted here)
James Chichester-Clark (areas for improvement here.
Ulster Unionist Party
Democratic Unionist Party
Unionism in Ireland
Orange Institution

WP Administration

Governments

6th Government of Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland MPs (1949)

William Morrison May

Northern Ireland MPs (1969)

Robert Babington
Thomas Bailie
Joseph Burns (UK politician)
John Dobson (UK politician)
Williamn Fitzsimmons UK politician)
William Fyffe
Basil Kelly
William Kennedy (UK_politician)
Samuel Magowan
Robert Dodd McConnell
Robert James Mitchell
Ivan Neill
Walter Scott (Northern Ireland politician)

Priority:

Nat Minford (also Bolton Minford)
Robert Simpson (UK politician)
Norman Laird

Ulster Unionist Party

Ulster Unionist Council deserves its own page
Source and include a list of Presidents of the UUC on the UUP page
David Browne
May Steele
Jim Rodgers (politician) expand
Roy Beggs improve quality
Ulster Unionist Party leadership election, 1979
Alex Kane (Northern Ireland)
Clarence Graham
Jeremy Burchill
George Clark (Northern Ireland) (former president, succeeded by Joe Cunningham)
Jack Allen (politician) - next time someone is in Londonderry they could take a picture of Jack Allen Court in the Fountain.
Richard Dallas
Christopher McGimpsey
James Pringle, K.C., MP for Tyrone and Fermanagh.
Sir Wilson Hungerford - 1940s, Parli. Private Sec., Home Affairs.
Prof. Savory MP
John Taylor, Baron Kilclooney - dreadful article at present.

Democratic Unionist Party

Charles Poots
James McClure (Northern Ireland)
Protestant Telegraph

Southern/Neo-Unionism

Stan Gebler Davies
Loyal Irish Union

Other topics

Traditional Unionist Voice - expand page
Robert Saulters (Orange Order Grand Master)
Independent Unionist Association
Robert Overend
Jean Coulter
Drew Nelson
Gordon Lucy
Henry Patterson (historian) - not sure if he's a unionist or not, but thats not the point, he is a seminal author on Unionist matters and a fine lecturer.
Jack Sayers - Editor of the Belfast Telegraph, this article will require a lot of research
New Ulster Movement - precursor to the Alliance Party.

[edit] Military Record

I've removed this from the article on the Orange Order. It may be of more use here:

Craig, served with 'distinction' in the [[Second Boer War]]. He served with the [[Royal Irish Rifles]], and also the [[Imperial Yeomanry]], and it was while fighting with the latter that he endeared himself to this comrades. The Irish Squadrons of the Imperial Yeomanry were badly mauled at a place called Lindley in the [[Orange Free State]] by a large force of Boer Commandos led by Piet De Wet. When the war was over, Craig presented a flag captured from the Boers to an Orange lodge in [[County Down]]. He often expressed admiration for his Boer opponents and like many Ulstermen admired the Boers for their [[Calvinist]] religion and their courage and fairness in battle.

[edit] Barryob

User Barryob restored deleted text that Craig was "staunchly anti-Catholic"; this is unsubstantiated POV and unencyclopaedic. I hope this doesn't have to go to the Administrator Noticeboard. Jill Teed 00:50, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Did you reed the reference beside the text [1] I thought not --Barry O'Brien entretien 01:09, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Haha the facts and the current situation are all a fine tribute to how anti-Catholic he was. Would you like to have a word with some of the older members of my family who had to stick this man. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.159.12.187 (talk) 18:53, 16 February 2008 (UTC)