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... SUCKED Garvaghy Parish was also, unwittingly, sucked into the events of the 1798 Rebellion of the United Irishmen. Betsy Gray, a famous protagonist in the Battle of Ballynahinch, is rumoured to be buried in the church graveyard. “There were three government ...
... that the letter signed by an assortment of physicians, Methodist divines, aristo- crats, trade unionists and latter day United Irishmen should use the absurd Republican phrase ‘Protestant, Catholic and Dis- senter’. Who are the more ‘Protestant’ — the Calvinists ...
... and the United Irishmen. He made particular mention of three men, David Bailie Warden, Thomas Ledie Birch from Saintfield and John Caldwell from Ballymoney, Co Antrim. He said Warden: “was arguably the most brilliant intellectual that the United Irishmen ...
... amount of arms in the province and the extensive community of Presbyterians were, to a large extent, sworn United Irishmen. It was owned by the United Irishman Alexander Lowry and his family who ran a bleachworks there. Accordingly, the Lord Lieutenant sent ...
... spine-tingling tour, recalling fascinating tales of the past involving wealthy merchants, paupers and leaders of the United Irishmen, including Henry Joy Mec- Cracken Am ong the most interesting facts was how bodysnatching became a popular past time for ...
... staged in the Old Town Hall Gallery, addresses the circumstances which saw the formation of the Volunteer movement and of United Irishmen. The event opens on Tuesday August 4 and runs to August 27 with viewing from 10am to 4pm. property The Volunteers organised ...
... and final lecture - on Friday, 31 May at Ipm at Jordanstown Campus - will examine the role of the Ulster-Scots in the United Irishmen and the 1978 Rebellion. This talk, from Professor David Wilso from the University of Toronto, should interest many people ...
... with two other men from Downpatrick and Loughinisland, for his part in an abortive uprising just five years after the United Irishmen rebellion. He is buried in the grounds of the town’s parish church. Sinn Fein councillor Eamon McConvey said it was a ...
... ..street traders. Other articles of interest in the winter Causeway include a special series of articles on the 1798 United Irishmen rebellion recollections of Narnia author C.S. Lewis’s early years on the shores of Belfast Lough, an analysis of the origins ...
... not always so. The house has been associated in the past with murder, grief and penury. One night, in 1797, a band of United Irishmen came demanding weapons. The owner John Cumming, whose family had been granted the place by Lord Clanbrassil, refused to ...
... most daring of the frontiersmen. Inthe 1770'5, 1780 s and 17905, Presbyterians were prominent amongst the Volunteers and United Irishmen. In fact, following the 1798 Rising, two Presbyterian ministers were executed, six imprisoned and eighteen exiled. Mr ...
... as she then was, first developed her interest in the United Irishmen. She went on to research the movement, eaming a Ph.D. at Oxford. Marianne’s definitive study — Partners in Revolution: The United Inshmen and France — was published in 1982 and enthu ...