... Ireland: they were schoolfellows sod playmates of Lard Casllereagh.wbo indicted them into, and; fact, sedooed them become United Irishmen. was one himself. I have seen his tigoatnre the hook of members, which was at Belfast somewhere about 1823. Well, he became ...

... merchant's p to set up a shipping A LURGAN family renowned as clockmakers, linen manufacturers and linked to slavery and the United Irishmen but strangely ignored by the history books is at last coming under the spotlight. Genealogist John McCabe, no relation ...

... consisting of 100 men four sergeants and a drummer. On the 7th June 1798, Henry Joy McCracken led an army of around 3,000 United Irishmen against the town of Antrim, which was then an important military post on the coach road from Belfast to Derry. However ...

... being anti- Protestant. ‘‘How could they be when they were of the Presbyterian faith, and in fact the uprising of the United Irishmen in the North was as much a revolt against the supression of civil and religious rights enjoyed by the Presbyterians since ...

... c manic Tins war was going to unite all sections of Irishmen. All creeds and classes were repreaanted there that night. The Irish litigate could go to the front with the lulster Division, and there light as united Irishmen for the honour of their country ...

... culture and heritage’. 1 can only assume that this lady is oblivious to the two ‘Aisling’ festivals and the lectures on the United Irishmen which where attended by both Protestants and Catholics who wished to understand common links and diversities in each others ...

... the conspiracy, some one of Tone's dearest friends had reveled both him and it. The membens of the society of the United Irishmen, united in what they professed to regard as the holiest of causes, be 1 each other. I need not speak of Wolfe Tone. Whatever ...

... the influence of tho Roman Catholic element, which was latterly admitted. One of its degraded phases was the Society of United Irishmen, of which the body known Defenders was offshoot. The Defenders were very troublesome in the County Armagh, and committed ...

... INCITING TO murder. New Yobi, Tutsoer.—Mr. G Donoran Bon. .dmiu that Jem e. U'herell lee loeerpool agent for bi. payer, the United Irishmen, doniaa fbatba »araembeiof K.uianoegenmatiou. The eyeete in a wildly incendiary ■tela tbie week. It aaye 1- Wa are tn ...

... will then start killing each other.” - A By Craigavon Borough Council’s Community Relations Programme presents THE UNITED IRISHMEN AND THE GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND, 1791-1801 An exhibition by the Linen Hall Library, Belfast Lough Neagh Discovery Centre ...

... Belfast hangs the shadow of Napoleon's Nose, more commonly knawn as Cave Hill. This was a favourite rallying place of the United Irishmen, who drew much of their inspiration from the “Corsican Ogre,” whose shadow Jlay indeed across all Europe, and especially ...

... but Masonic Lodge which was founded in September 1780, by Amyas Griffis, Surveyor Beifast Many of the founders of the United Irishmen, including Henry Joy Mc- Cracken and William Todd Jones, were members and resolutions were passed in the lodge room calling ...