... amongst other _ _ beautiful things, art ode to Mary McCracken. the devoted sister of Henry Joy McCracken. who commanded the United Irishmen at the battle of Antrim on June 7. 1798. The poem ends: Now she is gone and severed is the chain Which linked our generation ...

... meeting in Armagh A MEETING of the Armagh Pearse Republican Club held to protest against the seizure of 1.000 copies of the United Irishmen by Mire during a civil rights march last month took place without incident this afternoon. During the meeting a Police ...

... industrious and Liw-abiding as the dwellers in North street invariably were, yet in the times ot the volunteers and the United Irishmen excitement often ran high in the In October. 1796. cotton spinner named Mcßride. said to have been a spy in the pay tor ...

... leaders of the United Irishmen the old inn was a favourite place of meeting. Wolfe Tone was often there. as were McCracken. Russell. Neilson and McCabe. the son of the Irish slave in North Street. 1111•111M111 The principles of the United Irishmen of that ...

... Festival With the formation of the society of United Irishmen. and the subsequent rise of the Volunteers, an impetus was given to things Irish in Belfast, but. notwithstanding this more than welcome state of affairs, it was not until sixteen years after ...

... treason. but was afterwards released. After her husband's death, it was in Peggy Barclay's tavern that the leaders of the United Irishmen used to meet. in a room upstairs. under the auspices of the Muddlers' Club. This club was much resorted to by strangers ...

... told him of Johnson's drunken habits and of his threats of revenge by swearing that all the men of the Lagan valley were United Irishmen. and that the men had fled lest a ruffian's word would be taken against them. Well, my good woman.'' said Major Fox. ...

... ent of one Vatentine Jones: then followed The Thatched House Tavern, which came to he used as a mecting place hy the United Irishmen. after the Muddler , ' Club at Pegi,ty Barclay's in Sugarhou-e Entry became suspect. The fourth house in the row wits ...

... took his medical degree in Edinburgh. and practised in Lurgan and Dublin. One of the originators of the society of the United Irishmen. he was president of it for two years. and was tried for sedition in 1794. but was acquitted. He returned to live in Belfast ...

... Thomas Russell, William Putnam McCabe, and others of the United Irishmen, when they assembled there one fine summer morning, and swore an oath to free Ireland or die trying. The reason that the United men climbed up to the mountain's height was that they ...

... did such pollee duties as there were. Every town of any importance boasted its own corps. and during the days of the United Irishmen these civilian policemen were called on a good deal. CHARMING YOUNG WIDOW SONG wanted Mr. Walter C. Patterson, 8 High ...

... William Drennan, MA. United Irishman. poet and writer. who was born in Belfast on May 23. 1754. He took h:s medical degree in Edinburgh. and for many years practised in Lorgan and Dubin. Originating the society of United Irishmen. of which he was president ...