... downwards, though there was everything to make them otherwise and in 1797, while the number of United Irishmen in fVotestaut Ultter amounted to nearly 190,000, in the following year, in the larger and inure Catholic province of Leinster, 07,295 only were ...

... make it explode,” or (as Lord Clonmell said, when dying, his nephew Dean Scott, relation of Grattan’s,) they allowed the United Irishmen to go on, in order to carry the Union, and such was their design.” Long before the explosion they were in possession of ...

... latter case it is consoling to know that onr gifted countryman. Dr. Madden, the anther of *• The Lives and Times of the United Irishmen, is in possession of excellent copy the portrait Urd Edward at Carton, that the present race of liishmen and Irishwomen ...

... Kihnore, was a fool ; before his death, his son shot himself, and his property is reduced to nothing.—Dr. Madden's United Irishmen.) In this dreamy old churchyard, Where quiet and light, Like sisters, are resting— With 'noontide and night— Where silence ...

... organization under the directory of five of the Irish exiles is rapidly attaining a power and prominence. All the clubs of United Irishmen have given them their adhesion--some of the lapsed Fenian circles have also turned over, and many, we understand, wh, ...

... classes and creeds together, and that, in the light of these facts, we may hope to see again the glorious days of the United Irishmen. The second thing which we have gained from England is TM? rz. ANT-RIGHI !LL. The real object of that bill was to warn ...

... shed belief, when he said that the green never was known or used in Ireland as a national color until adopted by the United Irishmen, in 1782, and half of the men who adopted it wore Protestants. The Orange was the color of the Stadtholder of Orange, ...

... should be followed, not only in every town iu Monaghan, but in every town in the North of Ireland. This was the way the United Irishmen of old worked, ere they became secret conspirators against foreign power. .Monaghan has, at all events, shown a good example ...

... he would have been as a patriotic Irish poet. Moore tells us he was born a rebel, and friendly to the cause of the United Irishmen. One of these was a man named Donovan, who gave him his first lessons in Greek and Latin—preparatory for college—while ...

... the I letter part them were, and bad always been, luy d ; the more wild and wilful had been drawn into rebellion by the United Irishmen. Their enemies held bribe one hand and a bayonet in the other. They had nothing to hope from resistance but extermination ...

... bards were always ready to “improve” great occasions. In 1792, when it was thought the malcontent Volunteers and the United Irishmen would, between them, do something for foe country, the harpers of Ireland found themselves trooping to Belfast, to maintain ...

... seventyone years ago, that they were robbed by the Act of Union, and seventy-one-years’ experience has shown that the United Irishmen were right. Their grandsons to-day maintain the same attitude, although, under the force of rebellion, we have slightly ...