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Published: Sunday 24 September 2000
Newspaper: Sunday Life
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 311 | Page: 31 | 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

Feature

... entrance to the demesne on Comber According to the accompanying text the nearby Saintfield House played a major role in the United Irishmen’s uprising of 1798. The third view of Saintfield is of the courtyard on a pleasant summers day. Also included in the book ...

Published: Friday 03 November 2000
Newspaper: Ulster Star
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 87 | Page: 36 | Tags: none

Local interest at old hook honanza

... sale of Antrim 1938; make it a must for collec- * Madden'’s Lives and v tors and buyers from as Times of the United far away as Donegal, Irishmen. Dublin and Sligo who The organisers guaranswell the 800 strong tee that these books will crowd from all over ...

Published: Wednesday 08 November 2000
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 399 | Page: 38 | Tags: none

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... clergy. editions in dust jackets, particularly Later, Joy was associated with the those by Freeman Wills Croft and JJ United Irishmen - the mainly Presby- Connington. He sold the News Letter to an Edinburgh company in 1795. Thirty thousand rare and not ...

Published: Saturday 11 November 2000
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 545 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Your Letters Concerns about Republican Strategy

... parliament of the United Kingdom and therefore the legitimacy of the British claim to govern six Irish counties, can hardly claim to be republican. This is manifestly a unionist position. In accepting the legitimacy of the parliament of the United Kingdom, they ...

Published: Tuesday 21 November 2000
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 605 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

‘Heroes of the Scots-Irish in America’ on sale

... has just published his sixth book. Heroes of the Scots-Irish in America”, which has been published in both the United Kingdom and the United States, is once again a gripping story of how a brave people led the way in opening the American frontier. This ...

Published: Wednesday 22 November 2000
Newspaper: Londonderry Sentinel
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 311 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

ACTORIES

... religion, as always, were important features of this period with Henry Monro, a linen draper in the town, leading the United Irishmen at the Battle of Ballynahinch. He was later hanged in the Market Square. John Wesley, who preached in the market house ...

Published: Thursday 30 November 2000
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 882 | Page: 29 | Tags: none

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... members of Ballymena Historical Group. The plaque notes the hil was the place of execution of a number of outlaws and United Irishmen associated with the 1798 Rebellion. 8T49-30JM. RIGHT: Mr. Tom McCaughren, the Ballymena born journalist who has researched ...

Published: Wednesday 06 December 2000
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 815 | Page: 35 | Tags: none

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

Remembering the Irishmen who served so bravely in the Boer War a century ago

... Remembering the Irishmen who served so bravely in the Boer War a century ago ONE hundred years ago Portadown man, along with comrades from all parts of County Armagh, were fighting and dying in faraway South Africa. It was the Anglo-Boer War, fought between ...

Published: Friday 15 December 2000
Newspaper: Portadown Times
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 957 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

‘Heroes of the Scots-Irish’ published

... chronicles on the Scots-Irish in America, has just published his sixth book, Heroes of the Scots-Irish, in both the United Kingdom and the United States. Once again, it is a gripping story of how a brave people led the way in opening the American frontier. ...

Published: Thursday 21 December 2000
Newspaper: Banbridge Chronicle
County: Down, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 196 | Page: 24 | Tags: none