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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

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

E . . . - xhibition on 18th century politics An exhibition which will tion of the Volunteer run next

... on 18th century politics An exhibition which will tion of the Volunteer run next month in movement and the United Banbridge Olld Town Irishmen will be revealed Hall gallery will highlight at the event which runs political life in Ireland in from August ...

Published: Thursday 30 July 1998
Newspaper: Banbridge Chronicle
County: Down, Northern Ireland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 90 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

Unionists to raise IRA claims with US

... Economy Minister Sir Reg Empey said his party was “looking forward to discussing” issues relating to the arrest of three Irishmen in Bogota last summer with senior officials in the Bush administration and a congressional committee probing links between ...

Published: Thursday 10 January 2002
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 268 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

comment Morn First published in 1737 Ingview Who wants to talk to Gerry Adams about a united Ireland?

... to Gerry Adams about a united Ireland? or any of his associates in the Provisional IRA who, for 30 years, spilled an ocean of biood in their increasingly desperate but ultimately futile attempts to bully unionists into a united Ireland. Therefore unionists ...

Published: Monday 04 February 2002
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 477 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

6 NEWS LETTER, Saturday, March 23,2002 Adams: | have an open mind on US hearing

... yesterday said he had an “open mind” over an invitation by a United States congressional committee to give evidence in Washington on what he may have known about the arrest of three Irishmen in Colombia last year. The House of Representatives’ international ...

Published: Saturday 23 March 2002
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 366 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

F_Clerical officer in tears as she gives evidence ! Doctor incited mob, probe told ‘Adams must give Colombia ..

... guerrillas, when it meets US officials in Belfast. The party is expected to call for the Sinn Fein leader to be banned from the United States if he refuses to appear at a hearing in Washington DC. It is concerned that Mr Adams has not yet accepted an invitation ...

Published: Wednesday 10 April 2002
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 279 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

Pressure for Adams visa ban if testimony not given

... Pressure for Adams visa ban if testimony not given THE DUP is to use its contacts in the United States Congress to step up the pressure on Gerry Adams to give evidence at an inquiry into links between Irish republicans and Colombian Farc guerrillas. The ...

Published: Thursday 11 April 2002
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 305 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

comment Morni ' First published in 1737......_g———-——— Shock, horror! Adams rejects a US invitation

... the three Irishmen who are suspected of being members of the IRA and who, the prosecution will claim, were in Colombia specifically for the purpose of training terrorists. The fact is that the men will be tried in Colombia, not in the United States, and ...

Published: Wednesday 24 April 2002
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 457 | Page: 8 | 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