... 1798 PP Ty whetty appropriate, given the Rev. Professor Finlay Holme's lecture to the Mid-Antrim Historical Group on the United Irishmen (3rd November), that a famous little work on 1798 is again available). R. M. Young's Ulster in ‘9B, Episodes and Anecdotes ...

... an ardent ad- liter the Kmniets, the Slieara, ls*rd Ixl- and Wolf Tone. A nuiuilily arms and ammunition diwtinea for United Irishmen lay concealed Der- k house one day when party of tr«H»ps upon tmawari's. ana captured the l' res and their guardians as ...

... of Muckamore, some four miles or thereabouts from Antrim town. The brothers were deeply involved in the affairs of the United Irishmen, John being a gninter in the “Northern tar” offices in Belfast, this paper being the voice of the movement and well known ...

... menet escape the strong hand, and their punishment when caught will be sure, prompt, and severe. Mr. Rcesa's psper, the United Irishmen, published to-day, say.: If those barrels were designed to execute Mr. Forster and Mr. Gladstone for their murders in ...

... before they left the dock they were remanded to prison on a charge of high treason. , Peggy Barclay’s becoming unsafe, the United Irishmen were obliged to have their meetings elsewhere. ...

... ARCHER THE HIGHWAYMAN THE HERO Robert Dsvison is dead, brutally murdered by the rebel United Irishmen who are now in control of Ballymena. But they were not to be “united” for long. The 15,000-strong mob tpe rebels, Dr. Wilson ; . Dr. , was which had captured ...

... contri*,,Si first poem to Dublin journal, ■and some spirited compositions were pubjhshed fits “press,’’ the organ of the I United Irishmen, 1797. In 1799 he continued his course at the Middle Temple . and 1803. through Lord Moira his friend, lie sailed for ...

... the opposite extreme, who preferred Ireland ruled by Englishmen than governed Irishmen. At any rate, these men could not claim the political dcsccndcots the United Irishmen '93. who made Belfast the revolutionary capital of Ireland. (Applause He did not ...

... comes from a Belfast newspaper of Janurary 2, 1801, referring to the Act of Union of the day before, uniting Ireland and Greatdßrltnin in one United Kingom. In my previous articles 1 have shown that early in the 17th Century there was established in the ...

... small type, issued by the Observer Office. It gives a minute history of Ballymena from 1561. The chapter dealing with United Irishmen and the Rebellion it particularly interesting. Nor is it devoted entirely to political matter, for find reviews of the ...

... represented by the present Great Patrick Street. 3. Arthur O'Connor.—Nenhcw and heir to Lord Longueyille.. He joined the United Irishmen, and in Noxember. 1796. took house (where Lord Edward Fitzgerald resided with him for some time) near Belfast oreparatory ...

... Calboltc-, lac merry Protestants, educate their ain an’ practise the bar, but there wus lae be nae meetin’s o’ United Irishmen But the United Irishmen hatl got the length o’ bein’ in wi’ the French, an’ Hoche tried tae land Ireland, and it was jist about ibis ...