Later, soldiers who came home from the front, wounded soldiers too, were persecuted and assaulted.

The men of Ulster don't wish to fall under the power of the Green Irish.
"We do not know whether the British statesmen are right in asserting a connection between Irish revolutionary feeling and German propaganda.
But in such a connection we should see no sign of a bad German policy." Thus wrote a Prussian deputy in Das Grossere Deutschland.

That was over there.

This was over here:-- "The fraternal understanding which unites the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the German-American Alliance receives our unqualified endorsement.

This unity of effort in all matters of a public nature intended to circumvent the efforts of England to secure an Anglo-American alliance have been productive of very successful results.
The congratulations of those of us who live under the flag of the United States are extended to our German-American fellow citizens upon the conquests won by the fatherland, and we assure them of our unshaken confidence that the German Empire will crush England and aid in the liberation of Ireland, and be a real defender of small nations." See the Boston Herald of July 22, 1916.
During our Civil War, in 1862, a resolution of sympathy with the South was stifled in Parliament.
On June 6, 1919, our Senate passed, with one dissenting voice, the following, offered by Senator Walsh, democrat, of Massachusetts: "Resolved, that the Senate of the United States express its sympathy with the aspirations of the Irish people for a government of its own choice." What England would not do for the South in 1862, we now do against England our ally, against Ulster, our friend in our Revolution, and in support of England's enemies, Sinn Fein and Germany.
Ireland has less than 4,500,000 inhabitants; Ulster's share is about one third, and its Protestants outnumber its Catholics by more than three fourths.