... founders the United Irishmen. Mrs. Drennan often recalled her friendship with Miss McCracken, a sister of Henry Joy Met rackcn, who was with him when he died the scaffold. Dr. Wrllbrn Oronnan w.is not only one the founders of the United Irishmen but the writer ...

... sending out from going. He hoped that this would never be a reality, but they had to envisage such possibility. Where United Irishmen Found Shelter International Ploughing Competitions 23-Year-Old Down Man Wins Championship Twenty thousand people attended ...

... He associated himself actively with the efforts of the United Irishrmen, who stood for both religious and political freecom, and was on his way to France with Arthur OConner and other United Irishmen when he- was arrested al Maidstone, Kent, and tried ...

... &&h & THE “PRESS,” the organ of the United Irishmen, was started on the 28 September, 1797, by Arthur OCeonncr., It was an outspoken journal, ably written. and intensely disliked bv the Catholic authorities. The contributors included Thomas Addis Emmet ...

... youth. (Applause i. ‘Til the days of the United Irishmen the landlords and their henchmen and some others with vested interests were against their country. What has driven the children of the United Irishmen into the same political camp with the children ...

... Exhibition THE ULSTER Museum is planning a major exhibition for 1998, to mark the bicentenary of the rebellion of the United Irishmen. Five years ago the Museum mounted a very successful exhibition entitied Kings In Conflict to commemorate the 300th a ...

... wen. to London where he wrote several pampalets and some COmic operas. Returning to Ireland he joined the Society of United Irishmen and became one of their most trusted legal officers. He defended Robert Emme!, the Rev. Mr. Jackson, Napper Tandy, Tone ...

... to debark. We have not, as wet, seen a single boat and be dammned to them. (5). My interest in County Donegal and the United Irishmen was first aroused when 1 sought an explanation for its being chosen as a bridgehead for so many of the French expeditions ...

... REV. JAMES PORTER Presbyterian Minister of Ballindrait, the last of the Ulster leaders of the United Irishmen hanged by the British in 1798. him in tobacco, and by calling in Thompsons, Knoxes, McFarlands, etc. at meal time he got his food. Since Hugh ...

... black hearts of the United Irishmen.” There were no United Irishmen” in Wexford. There were only Irishmen. That was enough. The Wexford Irishmen nearly brought down the whole blood-cemented fabric of British ...

... mind that the Historical and Cultural be argued thatitis in fact the property of the Presbyterians and Anglicans. The United Irishmen, like our history, is controversial, but the students believe that greater understanding through lectures like this one ...

... several occasions, and was the medium of negotiations between the United Irishmen and the French Directory. WARNED BY BOY. “In March. 1798 the meeting place of the governing bodv the United Irish organisation In Dublin was raided bv the military, who several ...