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Edward Carson aimed to keep Ireland as a whole in union with which country?
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Edward Carson was an Ulster unionist politician who was the first Lord Mayor of Belfast and a leader of the unionist movement. He was a staunch advocate of keeping Ireland as a whole in union with Great Britain, and was a key figure in the Ulster Covenant, which was signed by hundreds of thousands of unionists in 1912.
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