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Condems Holmes for ‘United Irishman’ speech Moderator angers North Antrim DUP

... faithful nature of the United in Ballymena that the Irishmen”s rebellion Presbyterian Moderator's showed its true nature call for the recovery of the ~ with “vile deeds” on a liberal radicalism of the parallel with modern IRA United Irishmen was dis- atrocities ...

Published: Wednesday 13 June 1990
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 632 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

Holmes

... hoped t Ccreate a more equal one I ¢annot see why anvone is trying to belittle the role played by Protestants in the United Irishmen. They represented the highest vy Councill heading of a report o page 10 of the widely read TIMES last week, and, of course ...

Published: Wednesday 25 July 1990
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 96 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

Islandmagee Professor returns to his roots

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 2002
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 393 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

William McCaughey, now serving a life sentence for murder in the Maze Prison. On the final page of the document,

... McCaughey draws parallels between the co-operation shown by some Protestants to the mainly Catholic membership of the United Irishmen in 1798 and the calls for “shared responsibility” in modern Ulster. He states that Irish history “clearly demonstrates ...

Published: Wednesday 18 July 1990
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 150 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

By KIM HEWITT

... 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 ...

Published: Friday 01 November 2002
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 188 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

‘Boyes, bit et wus guid!’

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 11 May 2002
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 161 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

New Honouring tfiesman from God knows where

... 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 ...

Published: Thursday 12 September 2002
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 233 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

Historical facts ‘innaccurate’

... poised the question, “Are filsdenlxlnn Gillespie and is co trying to deny uue?gf:sbyterians were the dnvmg force behind the United Irishmen?” Whilst I cannot speak for Alderman Gillespie and his collea:fi\;u I would contend that the 1798 Rebellion was not 'so ...

Published: Wednesday 08 August 1990
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 289 | Page: 30 | Tags: none

nicarval House in Comber is Uoneoflhepretti&standmosl historic in the Province where clematis and wisteria cimb ..

... 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 ...

Published: Friday 24 May 2002
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 248 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

NYONE who has read Andrew Boyd’s Holy War in Belfast; anyone who has studied the history of 17th Century Ireland

... history of 17th Century Ireland or that of the 1790 s - the rise of Orangeism and the Rising and brutal suppression of the United Irishmen - anyone who has read the history of Ireland between 1912 and 1922 as well as all who have lived through the years since ...

Published: Wednesday 03 July 2002
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 295 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

Tracing the steps of St. Patrick

... early Middle Ages risked death on every journey. West of Strangford is the wide-streeted town of Ballynahinch where 7,000 United Irishmen lost the decisive battle of the 1798 rebellion. South of Ballynahinch on the slopes of Cratlieve mountain stands the Legananny ...

Published: Friday 01 July 1994
Newspaper: Ballymena Observer
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 361 | Page: 66 | Tags: none