... BETSY GREY AND THE UNITED IRISHMEN in fo-morrow's Sunday News Northern Ireland’s o.vn newspaper Tel: Belfast 33633 ...

... 5. -day A. Battle of Antrim ON JUNE 7, 1798, the United Irishmen under the command of Henry Joy McCracken made an attempt to seize the town of Antrim, then occupied by the 22nd Light Dragoons commanded by Colonel Lumley and the local Yeomanry under Lord ...

... MORE than 200 years after the French Revolution and the 1798 United Irishmen Rebellion which followed it, the ‘Physical Force’ tradition is alive and is being continuously propagated as the ‘only’ solution for the righting of historical wrongs! I would ...

... Council puts anniversary plan on hold COUNCILLORS in Ards have frozen plans to commemorate the bi-centenary of the United Irishmen rising. . People from the Ards area played a key role in the 1798 rising. But the council has decided to set up a subcommittee ...

... in TV probe of United Irishmen BRIAN Keenan, the former Beirut hostage, is to present a two-part series commemorating the 1798 rebellion. A Protestant who dfrew up in east Belfast, he didn’t learn about Wolfe Tone or the United Irishmen at school. “I was ...

... to erect a monument to the United Irishmen in Clifton Street cemetery. It seems obvious that if Sinn Fein knew their history they would be the last “political” group in support of such a monument. The Society of United Irishmen was established 200 years ...

... back home and they never lost sight of the struggle for independence. United Irishmen, United States by David A Wilson. Published by Four Courts Press, Dublin. “«It was the United Irishmen who originated the persistent and powerful tradition ...

... number of prominent United Irishmen became Unionists. One example is Samuel Neilson, who had edited The Northern Star, the newspaper of the United Irishmen. Irish nationalists have manufactured a whole range of myths about the United ...

... the United Irishmen.” Dr Tony Stewart, formerly reader in Irish history at Queen’s University, Belfast will deliver the Robert Allen memorial lecture on the subject 1798 And The Modesty Of History. He is expected to consider the story of the united Irishman ...

... the battle between United Irishmen and crown forces in Ballynahinch, is to be preserved for future generations. The distinctive hill, with its windmill stump, was the setting for the last major land battle in Ulster when United Irishmen from across Co Down ...

... wounds received in the attack by the United Irishmen at Antrim. The News Letter described it as an “atrocious murder” of a popular landlord — “an addition to the black catalogue of crime of which the United Irishmen have been guilty.” *“This melancholy ...

... the main plans announced by the Presbyterian Historical Society to mark the bicentenary of the 1798 Rebellion and the United Irishmen. “ Many Presbyterians and indeed Presbyterian Ministers were caught up on both sides in the ‘98,” explains Dr John McKee ...