... founders of the United Irishmen, and he well remembered the 12th of March. 1798. when soldiers invaded the nursery of the house Stephen's Green, looking for papers, and also for the emerald ring bearing the seal of the United Irishmen. However. Mrs. Jane ...

... hundred and fifty years for an organised armed Irish force to meet the British Army fairly and squarely the held. The United Irishmen in Co. Kildare had enrolled roughly 17.000 men. 5.000 of whom fought in Co. Wexford. Of these latter scarcely any survived ...

... owner. “Antrim and Down in ’93.”—Cameron and Ferguson of Glasgow, have issued a handy volume of the lives of some of »he United Irishmen Dr Madden, who is the recognised authority. “Farm and Home Year Booh.”—The Farm and Home Year Book lias put its annual ...

... by the rigorous measures which have lately been pursued. “For some days orders have been issued by the lenders of the United Irishmen, directing their partizans to be ready at a moment’s notice, as the measures of a Government made it necessary for them ...

... were responsible for the American revolution. It gave Ireland several of the founders and many of the leaders of the United Irishmen. In earlier timet they stood for tile Commonwealth against the King. With such tradition and a strong manufacturing arm ...

... patience and thoroughness. The I’nited Irishmen began as clubs, usttalh handball clubs. his own expense. Lord Edward built numbers ball alleys all over the county, so that under cover “matches” the United Irishmen could safely meet and make plans. e clubs ...

... ATTACK ON PROSPEROUS BARRACKS “Five hundred of them (the United Irishmen) under the command of Dr (brother Sir Thomas Esmonde. Bart.) made nieht attack on Prosperous barracks. Having despatched the sentinel, they rushed into the guardroom, piked twelve ...

... in the annals of the Geraldines. The most interesting and most illfated of them was Lord Edward Fitzgerald, leader the United Irishmen, who conspired against the British Government, was betrayed by Samuel Turner, and died in prison of wounds received in ...

... Fionn, the Danish-Age, the Ncrman Invasion, the Ulster Prince, the Confederation of Kilkenny, t!*o Jacobite Era, the United Irishmen, tho Fenians concluding with our own limes. ...

... Monday the foundation stone of a statue to the memory of Wolfe Tone, who I** buried at Bodenstown, one the leaders of the United Irishmen in the movement which culminated in the'rebellion of 1798, was laid in the open space at the top of Grafton street, Dublin ...

... Story willdeal exhaustively with the most stirring Incident in tbe career Lord Edwabd. When ono of tbe Leaders of tbe United Irishmen bo did a hero’s part in tbe struggle fori i*>h Freedom. The Plot is laid in Counties Kildare, Carlow, Wicklow, Dubliid ...

... Belfast, and there, aided by Bnssel, Neilson, Sinclair, and others, he founded in October of the same year the first club United Irishmen. It was perfectly legit organisation at that time; not until four yean later did it assume the form secret society. The ...