James Craig

The home of former Detective Inspector John Nixon on the 9 Ballygomartin Road in Belfast. Local DUP councillor Brian Kingston pictured at the house in September 2010. Picture: Jonathan Porter/Presseye.com

Bulldozers move in on Belfast home of controversial unionist (September 2010) Darryl Armitage

1st February 1922: 1st Viscount Craigavon (1871 - 1940), Ulster politician, Unionist MP and the first prime minister of Northern Ireland James Craig, Colonel Spencer and Captain Nixon attend a conference with Michael Collins at City Hall, Dublin. (Photo by Walshe/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: Sir James Craig’s promise for the future as he leaves Lond... Darryl Armitage

Leaders of unionism, Sir James Craig and Sir Edward Carson. In a letter to the widow of Mr William Waring, the caretaker of the Clifton Street Orange Hall, who had been killed by a Sinn Feiner in February 1922 the private secretary to the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, Sir James Craig, wrote: “Dear Mrs Waring – The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland wishes me to convey to you his deepest sympathy in your terrible loss. He is inexpressibly shocked and distressed at the treacherous death of your dear husband at the hands of brutal assassins.”

THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: Impressive funeral scenes as the toll of the gunmen rises Darryl Armitage

The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Lord Craigavon speaking with Mr Robert Gransden the Secretary to the Cabinet in 1940

THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: From the News Letter of December 1925 Darryl Armitage