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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

Global view of Robbie Burns

... travelling to Scotland to meet with Burns. Like him, the weaver poets were radical, with many of them supporting the United Irishmen in the rebellion of 1798, and many described themselves as men of little education, who like Burns were forced to seek ...

Published: Saturday 30 November 2002
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 433 | Page: 147 | Tags: none

Friday, WHAT’S ON FRIDAY

... Wilde Goose Theatre presents ‘Wilde!” by Paul Macardle, Bpm. B Room 16G45, Jordanstown Campus: Ulster-Scots and the United Irishmen, I.oopm. B Millennium Forum Theatre, Newmarket Street, Londonderry: Watershed Productions present The Borrowers, 11.00 ...

Published: Friday 31 May 2002
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 431 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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... stealing recently-interred corpses which they sold for medical research. They will also be able to see the graves of United Irishmen such as Henry Joy McCracken, William Drennan and William Steele Dickson. o (,;‘ L e, N o o~ R %93 o i e s ...

Published: Friday 05 July 2002
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 765 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Who are the Northern Ireland B ? . st pipers lead the way..!

... means confined to Scotland. Through the Rev. Thomas and Dr William Drennan his thought greatly influenced that of the United Irishmen in his native Ulster. Through his pupil the Rev. Francis Allison, from Co. Donegal, Hutcheson shaped the thinking of many ...

Published: Saturday 30 November 2002
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1180 | Page: 136 | Tags: none

Promoting the Ulster-American link Ten thousand copies of the Ulster-Scots Agency leaflets on the historic and ..

... College University of Toronto, was successful in his application for a grant to the Agency. He gave a lecture on the United Irishmen at Jordanstown, University of George Holmes, not to be outdone, gave a rendering of the popular Belfast ballad Will Ye ...

Published: Saturday 30 November 2002
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1245 | Page: 137 | Tags: none

Anti-riot unit on duty for big parade

... Anti-riot unit on duty for big parade MORE than 700 police and 300 soldiers will be in Portadown this evening for the big Oran(fe Order protest parade. Most of the RUC men will be from anti-riot Mobile Support Units, and Official Bonionist Assemblyman ...

Published: Wednesday 03 July 1985
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 384 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

comment Morn First published in 1737 Ingview Who wants to talk to Gerry Adams about a united Ireland?

... to Gerry Adams about a united Ireland? or any of his associates in the Provisional IRA who, for 30 years, spilled an ocean of biood in their increasingly desperate but ultimately futile attempts to bully unionists into a united Ireland. Therefore unionists ...

Published: Monday 04 February 2002
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 477 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

6 NEWS LETTER, Saturday, March 23,2002 Adams: | have an open mind on US hearing

... yesterday said he had an “open mind” over an invitation by a United States congressional committee to give evidence in Washington on what he may have known about the arrest of three Irishmen in Colombia last year. The House of Representatives’ international ...

Published: Saturday 23 March 2002
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 366 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Remember the Irish soldiers

... 'wwap proach to commemoration in the south. Half a million Irishmen - Catholic and Protestant - served their country, as it then stood, in the First World War. Who in the south remembers the Irishmen who liberated Guillemont or Wytschaete from German rule ...

Published: Monday 11 November 2002
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 366 | Page: 4 | Tags: none