Condems Holmes for ‘United Irishman’ speech Moderator angers North Antrim DUP

... faithful nature of the United in Ballymena that the Irishmen”s rebellion Presbyterian Moderator's showed its true nature call for the recovery of the ~ with “vile deeds” on a liberal radicalism of the parallel with modern IRA United Irishmen was dis- atrocities ...

Published: Wednesday 13 June 1990
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 632 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

Ulster Society meeting

... Ulster Society meeting THE formation of the United Irishmen is the subject of the Ulster Society’s next event, to be held at the Antrim Forum on Tuesday, October 15 (8 pm.). Guest speaker is Mr. David Hume, a journalist with the Larne Times and author ...

Published: Friday 11 October 1991
Newspaper: Ballymena Observer
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 72 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

SUCKED

... SUCKED Garvaghy Parish was also, unwittingly, sucked into the events of the 1798 Rebellion of the United Irishmen. Betsy Gray, a famous protagonist in the Battle of Ballynahinch, is rumoured to be buried in the church graveyard. “There were three government ...

Published: Thursday 04 July 1996
Newspaper: Banbridge Chronicle
County: Down, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 87 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

Holmes

... hoped t Ccreate a more equal one I ¢annot see why anvone is trying to belittle the role played by Protestants in the United Irishmen. They represented the highest vy Councill heading of a report o page 10 of the widely read TIMES last week, and, of course ...

Published: Wednesday 25 July 1990
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 96 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

William McCaughey, now serving a life sentence for murder in the Maze Prison. On the final page of the document,

... McCaughey draws parallels between the co-operation shown by some Protestants to the mainly Catholic membership of the United Irishmen in 1798 and the calls for “shared responsibility” in modern Ulster. He states that Irish history “clearly demonstrates ...

Published: Wednesday 18 July 1990
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 150 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

1798 Rebellion lecture to be held 1n Banbridge Library

... amount of arms in the province and the extensive community of Presbyterians were, to a large extent, sworn United Irishmen. It was owned by the United Irishman Alexander Lowry and his family who ran a bleachworks there. Accordingly, the Lord Lieutenant sent ...

Published: Thursday 14 May 1998
Newspaper: Banbridge Chronicle
County: Down, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 421 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

Exhibition sheds new light on Irish politics

... staged in the Old Town Hall Gallery, addresses the circumstances which saw the formation of the Volunteer movement and of United Irishmen. The event opens on Tuesday August 4 and runs to August 27 with viewing from 10am to 4pm. property The Volunteers organised ...

Published: Thursday 23 July 1998
Newspaper: Banbridge Chronicle
County: Down, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 217 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Doreen tells a yarn to the USA

... ..street traders. Other articles of interest in the winter Causeway include a special series of articles on the 1798 United Irishmen rebellion recollections of Narnia author C.S. Lewis’s early years on the shores of Belfast Lough, an analysis of the origins ...

Published: Thursday 11 December 1997
Newspaper: Banbridge Chronicle
County: Down, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 223 | Page: 24 | Tags: none

Historical facts ‘innaccurate’

... poised the question, “Are filsdenlxlnn Gillespie and is co trying to deny uue?gf:sbyterians were the dnvmg force behind the United Irishmen?” Whilst I cannot speak for Alderman Gillespie and his collea:fi\;u I would contend that the 1798 Rebellion was not 'so ...

Published: Wednesday 08 August 1990
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 289 | Page: 30 | Tags: none

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... most daring of the frontiersmen. Inthe 1770'5, 1780 s and 17905, Presbyterians were prominent amongst the Volunteers and United Irishmen. In fact, following the 1798 Rising, two Presbyterian ministers were executed, six imprisoned and eighteen exiled. Mr ...

Published: Thursday 14 October 1982
Newspaper: Banbridge Chronicle
County: Down, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 255 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Marples

... political wall flanking, as do so many such walls, a railway cuttingg This is now dominated by two Irish slogans, Get United Irishmen and Up The IRA. ...

Published: Friday 21 July 1972
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 316 | Page: 6 | Tags: none