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BALLYNAHINCH MARKET HOUSE: the council want to reopen it as a Rich history of Market House

... by the United Irishmen and had come under attack during the ‘battle of Ballynahinch’. “There was a famous event in the 1790 s where the second Earl of Moira Francis Rawdon was celebrating his birthday inside the Market House and outside the United Irishmen ...

Published: Thursday 14 December 2000
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 379 | Page: 31 | Tags: none

1798 plan under way

... 1798 plan under way DOWN District Council ‘l:'&muslu the his 1798 United Irishmen rebellion battlefield at Windmill Hill, Ballynahinch. The council and the eration Co-m plan to develop the 17- acre site as a commemorative park. Both nationalist and unionist ...

Published: Friday 14 April 2000
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 45 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Ghost busters on the prowl

... burial place of George ‘Bloody’ Hutchinson - an infamous magistrate who earned a bloodthirsty reputation during the 1798 United Irishmen rebellion with his ‘on-the-spot’ executions. The graveyard tour starts today at 4pm and the spooky theme continues with ...

Published: Saturday 28 October 2000
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 105 | Page: 5 | 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

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

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

@ Blood Transfusion Service do- nation sessions: NIBTS Headquar- ters, BCH Complex, Lisburn Road, 'nam-5.45pm; ..

... Building, College @ Queen’s Film Theatre: QFTI: Tal- Square North, Belfast: A Disunited Kingdom? Ireland after the Union, United Irishmen Commemoration Society lecture by Christine Kinealy, Tpm. @® Holywood: Naughty Ninepins and Bold Babes - a display on Rosamund ...

Published: Wednesday 21 June 2000
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 329 | Page: 11 | 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