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... The Defenders were radically different from the onginal United Irishmen. The original United Irishmen were middle-class deists. The Defenders were milknarian peasants. The original United Irishmen including ...
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Sunday Independent (Dublin)
DID YOU KNOW?
... Indeed in 1793 Oliver Bond, secretary, financed the six-month lease of Tailor's Hall to the United Irishmen for £9 2s. Nor were 15 members of the United Irishmen arrested in the Brazen Head, as Mr. Drew also announces. The arrests, 12 in all, were made ...
is Meath/Car-1 Antrim and
... preceded. and eked. by widespread id torture as Crown forces operated a ruthless search-and -destroy policy of ing down United Irishmen suspected rebels. The Britgovernment's greatest fear ...
Robert
... obtained vague promises of conditional support. After his arrival in Dublin he had established contact with some former United Irishmen. including Thomas Russell, Michael Dwyer and almost certaiinty John and Richard Curran. ...
John A. Murphy
... which Robert Kee explores in his freshly-researched and highly-readable The Laurel and the Ivy (Hamish Hamilton). In The United Irishmen, edited by David Dickson et al (Lilliput), the experts discuss the revolutionary movement of the 17905, arguably the most ...
Leader
... Leader MI 111•11 M OE Lord Edward joined the United Irishmen in 1796. when the passing of the Insurrection Act convinced him that the Castle had declared war on the people and that a struggle was inevitable. He at once became a leader of the movement ...
• The Jazz Years, by Leonard Feather (Picador; £4.95), covers over half a century in the career of one of
... McCracken. by Mary McNeill (Blackstaff; £4.95) is the story of the sister of Henry Joy McCracken, the executed member of the United Irishmen, and was hailed on ...
Did You Know CHARLES MEEHAN, author and translator, was born in Dublin at No. 141 Great Britain St., now Parnell
... 17th Century, 1869. He also edited the Essa)s of James Clarence Mangan and re-edited Madden's **Literary Remains of the United Irishmen 1887. Charles Meehan died on March 14th, 1890. JAMES MOLLOV. MOTORING The Alfa 164 2.0 Twin-Spark / *4444 ...
NvE ALL hope that this referendum weekend is at last the dawn of a brotherhood of affection, an identity of
... replace Catholic. Protestant, and Dissenter. Such was the stated objective, wildly optimistic as it turned out, of the United Irishmen who were the driving force of the insurrection of 1798, which began 200 years ago this week. In the momentous decade of ...
DID YOU KNOW?
... great-grand-uncle. Dr. Thomas &monde, served as Colonel in the Sallins Loyal Yeoman Cavalry. but threw his lot in with the United Irishmen in 1798. Among his victims was the infamous 'Pitchcap' Swayne. Dr. Thomas Esmonde. a Wexford man. was hanged on Carlisle ...
Thomas St
... Thomas St. Despite every warning, despite the arrest of the Leinster Directory of the United Irishmen, and a proclamation offering one thousand pounds reward for his apprehension, Lord Edward, with great courage and small judgment, decided to continue ...
to Northern Ireland
... s and Presbyterians as much as for Catholics, the Taciiseach is acting in accordance with the best principles of the United Irishmen. In short, it is he who is displaying a true republican spirit which the Catholic nationalists of Shin Fein-IRA ...