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Heroes of '9B 'non-sectarian'

... ties with France. In the national commemoration of 1798 the government had sought to reclaim the political vision of the United Irishmen, that of democratic, non- By UAM MOLLOY sectarian, inclusive politics, which could embrace and sustain all the people ...

Published: Monday 24 August 1998
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 246 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

is Meath/Car-1 Antrim and

... preceded. and eked. by widespread id torture as Crown forces operated a ruthless search-and -destroy policy of ing down United Irishmen suspected rebels. The Britgovernment's greatest fear ...

Published: Sunday 24 May 1998
Newspaper: Sunday Independent (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 72 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

A rising (t 1

... supplied key documents on their organisation's role in the United Irishmen uprising there and may even get involved in a reenactment of the Battle of Antrim, says Dr Peter Collins of the United Irishmen Commemorative Society. We'll have the biggest . . 4 I ...

Published: Friday 02 January 1998
Newspaper: Evening Herald (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 500 | Page: 24 | Tags: none

THE LEADER

... absorbed so many other invaders. The Protestant separatist United Irishmen of the North, with their interest in Irish, were the first results of that absorption. After the defeat of the United Irishmen, the concentration on Catholic grievances and the gradual ...

Published: Saturday 26 March 1955
Newspaper: Dublin Leader
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 510 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

INVASION FORCE

... campaign of repression that did serious. though not fatal, damage to the United Irishmen in Antrim and Down. As this assault on the conspiracy took place though. the United Irishmen gained thousands of recruits outside of Ulster. especially in the northern ...

Published: Saturday 23 May 1998
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1123 | Page: 38 | Tags: none

Parnell

... mind the 100th anniversary of the death of John Redmond in 1993 while Proinsias de Rossa cited the anniversary of the United Irishmen. While on the subject of political ancestry the Taoiseach this week is a Mayoman. Not a Dub, a Derryman or a Kerryman ...

Published: Sunday 03 March 1991
Newspaper: Sunday Tribune
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 97 | Page: 36 | Tags: none

STYLE CHALLENGE 10.05-10.30 am BBCI 7539375 This week it certainly is. Leading hairdressers, make-up artists ..

... the latest discoveries of the current generation of historians. It reveals the central role of Presbyterians in the United Irishmen and the strong Catholic involvement in the Crown forces who suppressed the rebellion. Key skirmishes are reenacted. ...

Published: Sunday 12 April 1998
Newspaper: Sunday Tribune
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 85 | Page: 93 | Tags: none

Battle of New Ross: the bloodiest battle of die rebellles. The death mask of

... becomes clear but above all she names the two officers of an active service unit of the United Irishmen in the parish as well as her neighbouring Protestant peer, a high ranking United Irish Motivations? What made men from a stable and distinctive dialect ...

Published: Saturday 23 May 1998
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 554 | Page: 46 | Tags: none

Books on 1798

... The Man from God Knows Where: Gansu Denis Carroll. Father John Murphy Boolavogue 1753/1798 Geography Nicholas Furlong. United Irishmen Radicalism: Liltiput Dickson & Keogh. Life of Theobald Wolf Tom Lllliput Thomas Partlett. The Massacre on Domkiln Green: ...

Published: Saturday 23 May 1998
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 442 | Page: 46 | Tags: none

IMUST have been about eleven yea rs old when I first heard the -story of •the Rising of 1798. More

... mainly a doomed movement of poor disorganised people. In general. the role of the United Irishmen in the Risings of 179 R has been considerably exaggerated. The United Irish leadership did call for a Rising but was too disrupted by arrests and dispersion ...

Published: Saturday 23 May 1998
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 547 | Page: 37 | Tags: none

New

... shaped by, in Wolfe Tone's phrase, the men of no property and, in particular, the alliance between the Defenders and the United Irishmen which, Smyth believes, was the most significant ideological development in eighteenth century Ireland. ANNE DEVLIN: PATRIOT ...

Published: Thursday 24 December 1992
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 95 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

cannon to delighted

... (estate), Tony Crowe confidently won a point. is a rocky place. Earlier this year. on the occasion of a lecture on the United Irishmen which the Boys hosted in the Mem. Mr Crowe fluently welcomed another ex-St Columb's schoolboy. Eamonn McCann and members ...

Published: Sunday 09 August 1998
Newspaper: Sunday Tribune
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 310 | Page: 5 | Tags: none