Here are a few images from the parade through Larne town (and speeches in Sandy Bay playing fields) to celebrate the centenary of the gun-running of April 24-25th, 1914, in which more than 30,000 rifles (rather than the Lewis gun and machine gun seen here) were smuggled into Ireland and dispersed to the various groups of Ulster Volunteers by horseless carriage (i.e. motor-car), in order to thwart the passage of the Home Rule bill.
(Here is a contemporary (1914) account from the (Adelaide) Journal. Here are video of the (2014) event: BBC | youtube | youtube)
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