BALLYNAHINCH MARKET HOUSE: the council want to reopen it as a Rich history of Market House

... by the United Irishmen and had come under attack during the ‘battle of Ballynahinch’. “There was a famous event in the 1790 s where the second Earl of Moira Francis Rawdon was celebrating his birthday inside the Market House and outside the United Irishmen ...

Published: Thursday 14 December 2000
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 379 | Page: 31 | Tags: none

Seeking Anglo-Irish answers 200 years on

... greater emphasis on much earlier developments: the theories of the United Irishmen, the 1798 rebellion and alienation of Catholics who supported the Act of Union in 1800. The United Irishmen. he said, expanded the Whig version of liberty to include Catholics ...

Published: Wednesday 23 August 2000
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 594 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

independence was secured from Spain in

... as virtual dictator until 1823. IBM Historian Dr Richard Madden born in Dublin. He wrote a fourvolume history of the United Irishmen (1842-6). 1S Eight British soldiers were killed and 27 injured when a ...

Published: Sunday 20 August 2000
Newspaper: Sunday Tribune
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 43 | Page: 22 | Tags: none

1798 plan under way

... 1798 plan under way DOWN District Council ‘l:'&muslu the his 1798 United Irishmen rebellion battlefield at Windmill Hill, Ballynahinch. The council and the eration Co-m plan to develop the 17- acre site as a commemorative park. Both nationalist and unionist ...

Published: Friday 14 April 2000
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 45 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Kitchener of Karthoum, the famous British

... Kitchener of Karthoum, the famous British general, was baptised there. By contrast, Nicholas Leonard, the local leader of the united Irishmen, was buried in the churchyard there. All this information and much more of interest is to be found in Padraig 6 Concubhair's ...

Published: Friday 23 June 2000
Newspaper: Kerryman
County: Kerry, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 73 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

‘The Prime Minister

... Rule would amount to Rome Rule. According to Dr Holmes the objects of the United Irishmen had been achieved since 1798 and were shared by all in Ireland as citizens of the United Kingdom. ...

Published: Wednesday 23 February 2000
Newspaper: Coleraine Times
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 68 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

EXHIBITION

... There is an ongoing exhibtition of photo- graphs taken in New- foundland during the Bicentenary commemoration of the 1800 United Irishmen Rising in St. Johns. The Irish Newfoundland Association invited a group of Irish people to take part in the ceremonies ...

Published: Wednesday 25 October 2000
Newspaper: New Ross Standard
County: Wexford, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 80 | Page: 28 | Tags: none

1798 REBELLION

... Irish Academic Press and this new title continues on from the previous concluded. This new titles looks at which the United Irishmen in Co. Wicklow carried on the struggle from deep within the Wicklow Mountains and the various ...

Published: Thursday 26 October 2000
Newspaper: Bray People
County: Wicklow, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 108 | Page: 28 | Tags: none

Ghost busters on the prowl

... burial place of George ‘Bloody’ Hutchinson - an infamous magistrate who earned a bloodthirsty reputation during the 1798 United Irishmen rebellion with his ‘on-the-spot’ executions. The graveyard tour starts today at 4pm and the spooky theme continues with ...

Published: Saturday 28 October 2000
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 105 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

New Chairman for Comoradh 98 DAVID MEDCALF

... Chairman for Comoradh 98 DAVID MEDCALF Staff Reporter THE Comoradh '9B organisation. which directed the commemoration of the United Irishmen rebellion two years ago. is still very much in existence. Comoradh has announced the appointment of Fianna Fail's Cllr ...

Published: Wednesday 13 December 2000
Newspaper: Enniscorthy Guardian
County: Wexford, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 113 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

Vicious racism brings shame on community

... Two years ago, we commemorated the failed revolution of the United Irishmen. Maybe some of those who paraded their racism in Rosslare marched with their imitation pikes. The United Irishmen sought liberty, equality, and fraternity. Whatever about our ...

Published: Wednesday 19 April 2000
Newspaper: Wexford People
County: Wexford, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 441 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

'9B bi-centenary and it attracted major funding from the Office of Public Works. The first sod was turned ..

... completed last year. The site chosen for mound of light is just about perfect, atop Oulart Hill, scene of the first great United Irishmen victory of the rebellion of 1798. The land high on the ridge was acquired from James and Cathy Dempsey. It is easily ...

Published: Wednesday 14 June 2000
Newspaper: Wexford People
County: Wexford, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 162 | Page: 20 | Tags: none