... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... {ul- filment ot her civilizing destiny. WALKS ABOUT BALLYMENA —No. IIT THe REBELLION oF 1798 THE arrangements of the United Irishmen for a si- multaneous out-break were completed at a private meet- ing of thirty-five colonels, held on the 31st of May ...

... 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 ...

... was almost invariably designated a “Turn Out.” This arose from the fact that many persons became connected with the United Irishmen without criminal intention, and at a period when political reform, to be effected by lawful means, was the only acknowledged ...

... neighbourhood; and among the sufferers were an unfortunate young man named Giffin— who was forced into complicity with the United Irishmen, and hanged within sight of his father’s house at Cullybackey —and another named Caskey, who was executed in like manner ...

... correspondent’s communication i 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 to local events of special jnterest in Ballymena or the neighbourhood, we are in a ...

... ulti- mately eulisted in the Antrim Militia. Soon afterwards, his restless spirit involved him in complicity with the United Irishmen: and, on the breaking out of the re- bellion, he deserted from his regiment and joined the insurgents, with whom he acted ...