UNITED IRISHMEN
... UNITED IRISHMEN These Candidates support Official Unionist Party Policy: CARSON —North What —North Down —South Antrim —S.sd Dew. —Fermanagh & South Tyrone ...
... UNITED IRISHMEN These Candidates support Official Unionist Party Policy: CARSON —North What —North Down —South Antrim —S.sd Dew. —Fermanagh & South Tyrone ...
... Samuel Neilson THE founder of the Society of United Irishmen, Samuel Neilson, son of a Presbyterian clergyman, was born at Ballyroney, Co. Down, in September, 1761. As a boy of 16, he was apprenticed to his elder brother, John, a Belfast draper. At the ...
... Battle of Ballynahinch DURING the evening of June 12. 1798, the army of the United Irishmen under Henry Munro exchanged their first shots at Ballynahinch with the English troops commanded by General Nugent. When only a few shells were fired in return ...
... 5. -day A. Battle of Antrim ON JUNE 7, 1798, the United Irishmen under the command of Henry Joy McCracken made an attempt to seize the town of Antrim, then occupied by the 22nd Light Dragoons commanded by Colonel Lumley and the local Yeomanry under Lord ...
... Salvos And so in 1868 Apprentice Boys fired salvos of broken crockery over Bogside from the Walker Monument. _ The United Irishmen of 1798 are held up as today's model of how Catholic and Protestant can and should join together. But Dr. Stewart writes: ...
... and unable to stand this any longer many of them joined the United Irishmen in an attempt to obtain justice and liberty. In 1795-96, as a result of suppression and persecution. the United Irishmen became a revoluionary movement. and by 1797. because of the ...
... Labour Party will not have Tony Benn foisted on it. It would be a disaster. lames Callaghan We cannot be united Irishmen. Can we not be United /slanders? John Diggs Davison, Tory Ml'. WEEKEND KITCHEN ...
... Feci. I . ter 3/- with esedenotote Others in this series : THE GREAT FAMINE 1845-52 THE ACT OF UNION 1799-1800 SOOn The United Irishmen; The '9l Rebellion Om threw hew: BOOKSHOP. 7 Linenholi St., What I. ...
... her home between Bangor and Donaghadee to visit her brother and also her sweetheart, Willie Boal, in the camp of the United Irishmen. under the command of Henry Munro, at Ednavady near Ballyttahinch. She had with her some clean clothing and food which ...
... anniversary of Wolfe Tone's birth —there wil be a commemorative assembly at McArt's Fort on the Cave Hill where the United Irishmen met before the rebellion of 1798. Egg Board ...
... the and. in the words of observer. there was ng and distant shout- his was the eve of stone Battle of A day in which 1 United Irishmen gallant attempt to town from the Wednesday the anniverstary of the as encounter the .ilstant shouting will from supporters ...
... Belfast, last night to mark the bi-centenary of the birth of Wolfe Tone. It was at this Fort that Tone met with the United Irishmen. A hundred people climbed to the fort from the Hightown Road, led by three boy pipers, and on the summit Mr. James Ferris ...