... Belfast and the United Irishmen. Y e High Stil __ ..~_ . __ ^ __ . This same year saw the inception in Belfast of a widely different enterprise, the founding of the Society of United Irishmen, which was, at the outset, a constitutional organisation ...

... were disbanded, and it has been stated that the ranks of the Society of United Irishmen were largely recruited from those of the older organisation, also that the United Irishmen could never have risen into such proportions as they eventually did without ...

... Irish Volunteers and issued from the same building a s the .Vorthern Star, whip h the journa I more especially t h e United Irishmen. The career of the latter publication, lasting over five year. (179 - • 1796) was decidedly stormy, though' pub - lished ...

... principles of 1782-3 in a love of freedom, imt for itself alone, but for all the race. Refused every relief demanded, the United Irishmen in time passed into other hands, became frankly republican, sought an alliance with France, after the manner of America ...

... the rising of the United Irishmen, the Dublin lamp lighters omitted to light the city limps. For this obvious collusion with the insurgents many them were hung from the lamps they neglected to light, and a number of the United Irishmen, who were captured ...

... persons, ground their teeth at the system which excluded them from their rights, and doubtless, thereby the Society of the United Irishmen picked up many new recruits. Here are the electors who made the first three legislators for Belfast in 1797:— Rev. Will ...

... younger men in the Presbyterian Church held very advanced political views, and were much concerned in the affairs of the United Irishmen. The Cornwallis Correspondence says: Many of the Presbyterian clergy in Belfast ardently promoted these schemes, and ...

... the land. Reform was a driving power behind the Volunteers, and was also to prove one, in the time to conic, behind the United Irishmen. L'lster spoke, worked, struggled, and ultimately armed her people for Reform ; had she succeeded, kVilliam Pitt's plan ...

... measures, and waxed more and more wrathful at the treatment of Ireland by King George's Minister, but he did not join the United Irishmen till fully four years later. Alas! that there should be any rebellion to record ! We read with dread the approach to that ...

... fringe of beard round his chin, which had been one of the causes for the attack made upon him, it being generally worn by United Irishmen, although at this time Holt was not one. His forehead was high, and his whole face was of an intellectual cast. I have ...

... seconded your election as a member of the Society of United Irishmen, which is constituted for the purpose of forwarding a brotherhood of affection, a communion of rights, and a union of power among Irishmen of every religious persuasion, and as you have been ...

... call of the brotherhood. It was not long in coming. Maurice was soon joined by three men, who had left the meeting of United Irishmen, then sitting, to swear in the new member. One was his guide, James Kinsella, and the other two were Phelim Toole, the ...