One was an Englishman.

Of the officers originally appointed not one in five was a Catholic.

No Catholic commanded a battalion, scarcely half a dozen were field officers.

The only Catholic field officer appointed to the Division who had been prominently connected with the Volunteers was Lord Fingall, and he had severed his connection with that body.
All this was a terrible blunder.

Whether it was wise or unwise to allow the formation of a division having the peculiar character of the Ulster Division may be argued--but certainly Redmond never took exception to it, and no man who ever saw these Ulstermen in the field can regret its inception.