... — § LISTOWEL '9B CLUB. LECTURE ON THE UNITED IRISHMEN. .hOn Sud-l\y -i‘h:,dm usual weekly meeting of Listowel ( Sdward Fitzgerald) '9B Club was wumu‘f*a_.wun—mmm a large attendance of members, and a number of , occupied the chair, and congratulated the ...

... HOW NEW ROSS WAS LOST. The attack on New Ross, made by five, hundred United Irishmen in 1798, was one of the most sanguinarv und determined engagements of the Rebellion. After several houns of fierce figchting they drove.the English across the Barrcw ...

... carefully n-‘L;he lives of the United Irishmen. From them t received the truest and noblest lessons in Irish Nationality—bold, fearless, -:y mmmmuyp-flithtp:?. b \htu»lh-bnleln-hnn.n‘udl_ class or creed, and as the United Irinbnm-ahilwth freedom of all ...

... upon their name and country. The subject of this referece, Henry Joy McCarcken, was one of those noble spirits in the United Irishmen agitation. He was horn in Belfast on the st of Angust, 1767. His ancestors on both sides, Calvinist and Huguenot. sought ...

... Kilwarden) had been Attorney- General. When that just lawyer shrank from overstraining the Constitution and law against the United Irishmen, he was promoted to the Bench to make way for Toler, who became thenceforward the fitting prosecutor of the Castlereagh ...

... ROSE IN DARK AND EVIL DAYS. The United Irishmen had planned a weneral uprising for this night, but the arrest of more than three hundred of ‘heir leaders, among whom was Lord. Fdward Fitzgerald. disorganized the insurrectionary forces; so the rising “vas ...

... year he and his friend, Father Quigley. were urrested at Margate, on their way to France, on a eupposed mission from the United Irishmen. In O’Connor’s baggaze were found a military uniform, 4,500 dollars in cash, and the key to a cipher corvespondence with ...

... offered him a place under the English Crown, to win him from the National Party. In 1796 he entered the Directory of the United Irishmen, and constituted, with Lord Edward Fitzgerald, the Southern Directory. In the same year he accompanied Lord Edward to ...

... of! the necessity of Catholic Emancipation and Parliamentary Reform, he originated the establishment of the Society of United Irishmen, and published a prospectus in June, 1791 ; his *‘ Letters of Orelana’’ had much to do in getting Ulster to join the league ...

... deceased gentieman held the declaration of the mimimum procty § 7 dwringuished record in the Royal Engineers cal demand of United Irishmen. The! His death is @ great affliction to his mother g ) ’ and family, who not long smce mourned the horror and fear of ...

... demonstration, -Mr, M. Governey placed a wreath _on ‘;IQV “Croppers’ grave’’ in Graigne, where are in. terred some 966 United Irishmen killed in 1798 The memory of tbeflhjl'otic dead, he said in a short address, is greener than ever. He hoped that spirit ...

... imurroo-tion, a two hundred ton hrizantive “to ' althouzh he did not formally ioin the strike terror to Fneland's heart * has United Irishmen till come time after formed the theme of many cynical his return from France. jokes from those who probably would not ...