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Yeats letters sold

... for £5,000 at an auction in London. Secret reports on the United Irishmen and letters, documents and manuscripts from historical and literiry figures were also up for sale. The United Irishmen reports, one of which noted the clearest proofs of a systematic ...

Published: Thursday 10 December 1987
Newspaper: Evening Herald (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 104 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

A T Q STEWART

... PROPHET OF IRISH INDEPENDENCE By Marianne Elliott Yale University Press £16.95 ( UK) of the formation of the Society of United Irishmen draws near, we have a superb biography. I can think of no one better qualified to write it than Dr Marianne Elliott, a ...

Published: Sunday 12 November 1989
Newspaper: Sunday Tribune
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 174 | Page: 28 | Tags: none

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... buildings that once was a meeting place for the United Irishmen ttheir work would secure the future of the hall. Mr. Haughey recalled its rich history including its period as a venue for Society of United Irishmen meetings prior to the '9B Rising. We can therefore ...

Published: Tuesday 01 March 1988
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 224 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

SELECTIONS

... five miles from the centre of Belfast, Dundonald's sympathies were strongly Republican in 1798 and membership of the United Irishmen high. Its history since then is almost a metaphor for Ireland's missed opportunities. As recently as the 1960 s there ...

Published: Sunday 15 May 1988
Newspaper: Sunday Tribune
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 131 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

Ytw i'lrekndel

... The programme examines the role of Wolfe Tone. who became the best-known figure of the United Irishmen, the underground revolutionary organisation formed to united Catholics and Protestants in an effort to break the tie with England. Discussing the f ...

Published: Sunday 09 July 1989
Newspaper: Sunday World (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 132 | Page: 48 | Tags: none

WOLFE TONES ... Ryan record release Dubliners song banned in Britain TRADITIONAL Irish ballads have wow been Sy ..

... about Fr. Kelly the Boy from R yan an d extra di t i on . Mane, the famous song commemorating the One London-based United Irishmen Rebellion radio station is interpret. in 1798, is one of numer- log the ban to cover all ous songs to be blacked. political ...

Published: Tuesday 13 December 1988
Newspaper: Evening Herald (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 160 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

The feared red cap (left), the figure of Liberty leading the revolutionaries and the birth of the tricolour

... declared war on Britain. and the British government clamped down on political agitation throughout the British Isles. The United Irishmen were banned, and promptly turned themselves into a secret society. They now turned away from peaceful reform and laid ...

Published: Wednesday 12 July 1989
Newspaper: Evening Herald (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 522 | Page: 31 | Tags: none

cross

... including one or tw•o rather sad ones at that. Fetching decidedly less at the same sale was a group of secret reports of the United Irishmen, tracing their con= piracy up to August 1798 and boasting the clearest proofs of a systematic design to dissolve the ...

Published: Wednesday 16 December 1987
Newspaper: Evening Herald (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 190 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

istie‘s cross over

... including one or two rather sad ones at that. Fetching decidedly less at the same sale was a group of secret reports of the United Irishmen. tracing their convpiracy up to August 1798 and boasting the clearest proofs of a systematic design to dissolve the ...

Published: Wednesday 16 December 1987
Newspaper: Evening Herald (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 190 | Page: 35 | Tags: none

`ln' thing now to 'knock' 1916—dlr. THE in thing among some of our politicians now is to knock the principles

... War of Independence in the same %a% as it %as fashionable. at the turn of the century, to denigrate N olfe Tone and the United Irishmen. Cooneillior Madigan's statement% were described as deplorable by Fine Gael councillor Aine Elliott. She said: This ...

Published: Wednesday 04 June 1986
Newspaper: Evening Herald (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 265 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

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... including one or tw•o rather sad ones at that. Fetching decidedly less at the same sale was a group of secret reports of the United Irishmen, tracing their conspiracy up to August 1798 and boasting the clearest proofs of a systematic design to dissolve the ...

Published: Wednesday 16 December 1987
Newspaper: Evening Herald (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 213 | Page: 27 | Tags: none