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United Irishmen

... United Irishmen In October, society known 1791, the as the “United Irishmen” was formed to support Parliamentary Reform and Dr. Dickson sought membership. However, it is not certain if in fact he was ever enrolled as a member. Here again he eagerly pursued ...

Published: Thursday 05 October 1967
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 145 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

United Irishmen

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Published: Thursday 28 January 1965
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 130 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Id picture of Riverside, Antrim, along which some of the United Irishmen escaped after the Battle of Antrim. : N

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Published: Thursday 30 March 1967
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 400 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

ANTRIM Link with the United Irishmen R. Frederick Mulligan, of I‘l Parkhall, who died in hospital last week at ..

... ANTRIM Link with the United Irishmen R. Frederick Mulligan, of I‘l Parkhall, who died in hospital last week at an advanced age was a direct descendant of William Orr who was executed at Carrickfergus on October 14, 1797, on being found guilty £ administering ...

Published: Thursday 21 June 1962
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 789 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

MID-ANTRIM’S FASCINATING ORANGE STORY \'ERY POSSIBLY THERE WERE Orangemen soon after 1798 in that pleasant part ..

... pleasant part of the Maine Valley that lies between Cullybackey and Glarryford. After the failure of the “turn-out” of the United Irishmen this was one of the districts terrorised by the notorious Thomas Archer and his band, who carried on a ferocious kind ...

Published: Thursday 10 January 1963
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 614 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Preparation

... preparation continued and Toome's band of the United Irishmen grew in numbers and skill. Soon Roddy McCorley was promoted to lead the corps Under his guidance and strict discipline the better of the United Irish soldiers were made ready for battle. g CREEE ...

Published: Thursday 19 August 1965
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 86 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Impossible

... Impossible The United Irishmen now began to realise that Parliamentary reform was impossible to achieve and so they prepared themselves for a rebellion. Dr. Dickson apparently never attended the society meetings of the United Irishmen, but we do know ...

Published: Thursday 05 October 1967
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 124 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Leaders

... Leaders There he met Samye! Neilson. Henry Joy McCracken, Thomas Russell and other United Irishmen leaders. Hope became known in the organisation as the “Spartan” because of his special skill in carrying out difficilt and dangerous missions. ; Beiween ...

Published: Thursday 25 July 1968
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 414 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

T O oo S I RR =

... T O oo S I RR = United Irishmen 1998 Counci agree to cross border involvement ...

Published: Wednesday 18 February 1998
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 16 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

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

NOT FOR SEPARATION,

... on one side and rejected that the United Irishmen became revolutionary and separated organisation. Everyone who had read carefully the history of theae days knew that if answer to the demand of the . United Irishmen Constitution such Ireland had just ...

Published: Saturday 24 October 1914
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 219 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

MEANT

... MEANT The leaders of the United Irishmen had never meant their untrained and poorly armed members to take on the experienced Government troops in pitched battles. They had been negotiating with the French Government and their hope was that they would ...

Published: Wednesday 03 June 1998
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 58 | Page: 16 | Tags: none