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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

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

Islandmagee Professor returns to his roots

... and the United Irishmen. He made particular mention of three men, David Bailie Warden, Thomas Ledie Birch from Saintfield and John Caldwell from Ballymoney, Co Antrim. He said Warden: “was arguably the most brilliant intellectual that the United Irishmen ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 2002
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 393 | Page: 20 | 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

By KIM HEWITT

... spine-tingling tour, recalling fascinating tales of the past involving wealthy merchants, paupers and leaders of the United Irishmen, including Henry Joy Mec- Cracken Am ong the most interesting facts was how bodysnatching became a popular past time for ...

Published: Friday 01 November 2002
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 188 | Page: 3 | 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

‘Boyes, bit et wus guid!’

... and final lecture - on Friday, 31 May at Ipm at Jordanstown Campus - will examine the role of the Ulster-Scots in the United Irishmen and the 1978 Rebellion. This talk, from Professor David Wilso from the University of Toronto, should interest many people ...

Published: Saturday 11 May 2002
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 161 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

New Honouring tfiesman from God knows where

... with two other men from Downpatrick and Loughinisland, for his part in an abortive uprising just five years after the United Irishmen rebellion. He is buried in the grounds of the town’s parish church. Sinn Fein councillor Eamon McConvey said it was a ...

Published: Thursday 12 September 2002
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 233 | Page: 11 | 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