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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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... not always so. The house has been associated in the past with murder, grief and penury. One night, in 1797, a band of United Irishmen came demanding weapons. The owner John Cumming, whose family had been granted the place by Lord Clanbrassil, refused to ...

Published: Friday 24 May 2002
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 248 | Page: 21 | 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

NYONE who has read Andrew Boyd’s Holy War in Belfast; anyone who has studied the history of 17th Century Ireland

... history of 17th Century Ireland or that of the 1790 s - the rise of Orangeism and the Rising and brutal suppression of the United Irishmen - anyone who has read the history of Ireland between 1912 and 1922 as well as all who have lived through the years since ...

Published: Wednesday 03 July 2002
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 295 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

Tracing the steps of St. Patrick

... early Middle Ages risked death on every journey. West of Strangford is the wide-streeted town of Ballynahinch where 7,000 United Irishmen lost the decisive battle of the 1798 rebellion. South of Ballynahinch on the slopes of Cratlieve mountain stands the Legananny ...

Published: Friday 01 July 1994
Newspaper: Ballymena Observer
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 361 | Page: 66 | Tags: none

Global view of Robbie Burns

... travelling to Scotland to meet with Burns. Like him, the weaver poets were radical, with many of them supporting the United Irishmen in the rebellion of 1798, and many described themselves as men of little education, who like Burns were forced to seek ...

Published: Saturday 30 November 2002
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 433 | Page: 147 | Tags: none

Friday, WHAT’S ON FRIDAY

... Wilde Goose Theatre presents ‘Wilde!” by Paul Macardle, Bpm. B Room 16G45, Jordanstown Campus: Ulster-Scots and the United Irishmen, I.oopm. B Millennium Forum Theatre, Newmarket Street, Londonderry: Watershed Productions present The Borrowers, 11.00 ...

Published: Friday 31 May 2002
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 431 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Orange book proves popular

... , pictured at the start of their treasure hunt, with competitor William Lorimer. 278T119. after the rebellion of the United Irishmen in 1798 that the Orange Society was firmly established in the Ballymena area. the subject which appeared in the Ballymena ...

Published: Wednesday 04 July 1990
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 657 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

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... stealing recently-interred corpses which they sold for medical research. They will also be able to see the graves of United Irishmen such as Henry Joy McCracken, William Drennan and William Steele Dickson. o (,;‘ L e, N o o~ R %93 o i e s ...

Published: Friday 05 July 2002
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 765 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Who are the Northern Ireland B ? . st pipers lead the way..!

... means confined to Scotland. Through the Rev. Thomas and Dr William Drennan his thought greatly influenced that of the United Irishmen in his native Ulster. Through his pupil the Rev. Francis Allison, from Co. Donegal, Hutcheson shaped the thinking of many ...

Published: Saturday 30 November 2002
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1180 | Page: 136 | Tags: none

Promoting the Ulster-American link Ten thousand copies of the Ulster-Scots Agency leaflets on the historic and ..

... College University of Toronto, was successful in his application for a grant to the Agency. He gave a lecture on the United Irishmen at Jordanstown, University of George Holmes, not to be outdone, gave a rendering of the popular Belfast ballad Will Ye ...

Published: Saturday 30 November 2002
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1245 | Page: 137 | Tags: none