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UNITED IRISHMEN

... UNITED IRISHMEN HE'S A typical wee fellow from the Shankhill, endowed with an exceptional talent for a popular game, several of whose past exploits have not redounded greatly to his credit, especially when there has been a drop of strong drink about. ...

Published: Tuesday 06 December 1983
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 150 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

Books Scholarly study of United Irishmen

... Books Scholarly study of United Irishmen Morianne Eliots has produced @ stacty of arianne eDI e e S terestd in Irish hub'zand the pobtscl:l l'elamhlpm ip between British Isles and Dr Elliott’s PARTNERS IN REVOLUTION: THE UNITED IRISH- G work of & e ‘;'lh‘ ...

Published: Friday 15 April 1983
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 224 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LYRIC THEATRE CO. (Belfast) Present: — by Stewart Parker THE UNITED IRISHMEN?.... THE REAL STORY It's 1798 and ..

... CO. (Belfast) Present: — by Stewart Parker THE UNITED IRISHMEN?. THE REAL STORY It's 1798 and Henry Joy McCracken awaits execution in a derelict labourer’s cottage outside Belfast. His dream of uniting Catholic, Protestant and Dissenting Irishman in ...

Published: Friday 27 September 1985
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 149 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

TROUBLED TIMES

... The French were, however, repulsed and their invasion plans came to nothing. Meanwhile another organisation called the United Irishmen was founded in Belfast. This movement spread rapidly throughout Ireland and it soon came to be known that they were in ...

Published: Friday 12 September 1986
Newspaper: Ulster Star
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 114 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

NEWS LETTER 250, 1737@&5» 987

... wounds received in the attack by the United Irishmen at Antrim. The News Letter described it as an “atrocious murder” of a popular landlord — “an addition to the black catalogue of crime of which the United Irishmen have been guilty.” *“This melancholy ...

Published: Wednesday 18 March 1987
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 358 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Letters for the honoured

... Jefferson, a f Mayor of Londonderry IT MAY have been a bold step for the Folklore Society to arrange a talk entitled ‘“The United Irishmen” at this particular period when the cry of most of our political leaders seem to be “no collaboration” or “no surrender ...

Published: Friday 21 January 1983
Newspaper: Larne Times
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 487 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

William has produced some interesting information about the Cushendallborn doctor: “Doctor McDonnell was one of ..

... some interesting information about the Cushendallborn doctor: “Doctor McDonnell was one of the members of the Society of United Irishmen. He was born near Cushendall and is buried there. He qéa&l’ilfied as a doctor in inburgh in 1784 and, although sympathetic ...

Published: Tuesday 27 October 1987
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 183 | Page: 33 | Tags: none

Working on Wolife Tone

... Working on Wolife Tone MARIANNE ELLIOTT, a Glengormley girl who has earned international recognition for her study of the United Irishmen movement, is working on a new biography of the man who launched the organisation back in the 1790’s — Theobald Wolfe Tone ...

Published: Monday 16 June 1986
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 175 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

Munro jugs go on display

... ry reform and Roman Catholic emancipation that he drifted into the much more radical society of United Irishmen in the 1790’5. In 1798 the United Irishmen came into open rebellion and Munro commanded its army in County Down. After occupying Saintfield ...

Published: Friday 25 January 1985
Newspaper: Ulster Star
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 210 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

From Mallusk to gallows

... woods — John Nevin. Peter along with his copy of ‘Who Fears to Speak of '9B writes about the United Irish Society in the following terms. R A “The United Irishmen were formed in Belfast in 1791 by Theobald Wolfe Tone, by 1793 the “Liberty Men” as they become ...

Published: Monday 07 September 1987
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 408 | Page: 15 | Tags: none