... memorable year of 1708, at which time Ballymena became the scene of some stirring events connected with the rebellion of the United Irishmen.” The circumstances connected with that insane attempt overturn the government are better suited to the scope afforded ...

... interest for Irishmen. Irish genius and Irish courage have in due proportion won for the British Crown that empire immense in territory and in population and now seriously endangered. From Wellington to Napier at Scinde and Gough at Goojerat] Irishmen have written ...

... empire.— Nevertheless the British Association was greeted ; warmly in Dublin. Irishmen for the time laid l aside their political animosities and religious antipathies, ana united cordially in paying homage to science and scientific men. believe the same ...

... article of this series comprised various notices of Ballymena, from the reign of Queen Elizabeth to the rebellion of the United Irishmen in 1708. To some of onr readers the occurrences of that unhappy year are known only by representations of doubtful authority ...

... perfect fulfilment ot her civilising destiny. WALKS ABOUT BALLYMENA.—No, 111 The Rebellion o? 1798. The arrangements of the United Irishmen for a simultaneous out-break were completed at a private meeting of thirty-five colonels, held on the 31st of May,1798 ...

... Parties paraded the street, preceded horn-blowers, and gave vent their enthusiasm in shouts *Ballymena*s own*Hurrah for the United Irishmen!***Up wi* the green and down wi* King Geordie!* When their throats became dry. resort was made to the nearest dram shop; ...

... clinging to a plank. Thr Electric Tri.eoraph the United States. —lt is stated letter recently received from New York, that the messages sent by the electric telegraph during the course of last year the United Slates amount to considerably above 13,000,000 ...

... afterwards forfeited his life. About the same time, several members of the Provincial Directory, or Committee of the United Irishmen, arrived and took possession of Mr. Dixon’s inn—the hotel establi>bmcnt now occupied the Misses Ainsworth; and although ...

... and that the castle, with its entire store of arras, artillery, and ammunition was at that moment in the hands of the United Irishmen. These statements were not implicitly believed, and doubt, hesitation, and perplexity continued to prevail; but some faint ...

... forty-five years ago, the rickety old remnant of antiquity was finally levelled. was a noted rebel; ard many hundreds of the United Irishmen took the oath of the association their place of secret assemblage in a cellar underneath his house. Another correspondent ...

... homeless, and w ihoul a morsel of food allay the cia»ings of hunger. Tuose are flee a'e d and we ob>crve that sererai hundred Irishmen have left New York on. their way home. tho credit o* the lii>b-American papers, .p.ust,remark that their culumus are hoed ...

... correspondent’s communication ii new to us; but if we had undertaken to write a general history of the rebellion of the United Irishmen, instead of limiting our reference local events of special interest in Ballymena or the neighbourhood, we are in a position ...