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Bulmer Hobson was born in Holywood, County Down, and being a Quaker was educated at the Friends' School, Lisburn. He was an ardent admirer of Wolfe Tone and was to publish The Life of Wolfe Tone in 1919. He worked in the printing business in Belfast and began a club for boys which evolved into the Protestant National Society and was used to recruit young Protestants into the Nationalist Movement.

He was secretary of the first Antrim County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association but resigned and established Na Fianna Eireann.

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Constance Markievicz and he in 1909 expanded this club to a national scout organisation. The Ulster Literary Theatre had Hobson as one of its founding members, and he wrote a poetic drama, Brian of Banba. He was dissatisfied with Cumann na nGaedheal and began a club for which he wrote To the Whole People of Ireland: The Manifesto of the Dungannon Club in 1905.

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