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... constitution and character of her government , legislative and administrative , during the earlier part of the century whose closing years have written their annals in blood and fire ; we must inform ourselves of the social and ...
... constitution and character of her government , legislative and administrative , during the earlier part of the century whose closing years have written their annals in blood and fire ; we must inform ourselves of the social and ...
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... constitution of Ireland in the eighteenth century formally ignored the ex- istence of these five - sixths of the Irish people . In the year 1759 it was ruled in the Four Courts of Dublin , that " the law did not presume a Papist to ...
... constitution of Ireland in the eighteenth century formally ignored the ex- istence of these five - sixths of the Irish people . In the year 1759 it was ruled in the Four Courts of Dublin , that " the law did not presume a Papist to ...
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... constitution , such as it was , at one stroke , without notice and without debate . The appetite for persecution kept on growing by what it fed on . By other acts of this reign Papists were forbidden to practise as barristers ...
... constitution , such as it was , at one stroke , without notice and without debate . The appetite for persecution kept on growing by what it fed on . By other acts of this reign Papists were forbidden to practise as barristers ...
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... constitution in Church and State which indulged the " domineering aristocracy of five hundred thousand Protest- ants with the sweets of having two millions of slaves . " We have followed the domineering aristocracy from the business of ...
... constitution in Church and State which indulged the " domineering aristocracy of five hundred thousand Protest- ants with the sweets of having two millions of slaves . " We have followed the domineering aristocracy from the business of ...
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... constitutional right to direct the appropriation of surplus revenue without the previous con- sent of the crown . But so little store was set on Irish Commons ' votes and resolutions , that the question was cut short by a King's letter ...
... constitutional right to direct the appropriation of surplus revenue without the previous con- sent of the crown . But so little store was set on Irish Commons ' votes and resolutions , that the question was cut short by a King's letter ...
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agitation arms army Bantry Bay Belfast bill Britain British Captain Catholic cause cavalry Charlemont command consequence constitution corps Court Defenders delegates Directory Dublin Castle Dungannon emancipation enemy England English Enniscorthy execution favour Fitzgerald force France French friends give Grattan honour House of Commons inhabitants insurgents insurrection Ireland John Sheares justice king's kingdom leaders legislative Lord Castlereagh Lord Charlemont Lord Edward Lord Edward Fitzgerald Lord Kingsborough Lord Lieutenant magistrates March measures meeting Memoirs ment military minister months murder nation never night occasion officers Oliver Bond organisation Papists parliament parliamentary party patriots persons pike political Popish popular prisoners proceedings proclamation Protestant Protestant ascendency province Rathfriland rebel Rebellion of 1798 reform Reynolds says Secret Committee Society of United spirit Theobald Wolfe Tone thing tion Tone town treason troops Ulster Union United Irish United Irishmen Volunteer Wexford whole Wicklow yeomanry
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Page 6 - I must do it justice : it was a complete system, full of coherence and consistency ; well digested and well composed in all its parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement, in them, of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.
Page 8 - The landlord of an Irish estate inhabited by Roman Catholics is a sort of despot, who yields obedience, in whatever concerns the poor, to no law but that of his will.
Page 100 - In the awful presence of God, I, AB , do voluntarily declare, that I will persevere in endeavouring to form a brotherhood of affection among Irishmen of every religious persuasion, and that I will also persevere in my endeavours to obtain an equal, full, and adequate representation of all the people of Ireland.
Page 8 - A landlord in Ireland can scarcely invent an order which a servant, labourer, or cottar dares to refuse to execute. Nothing satisfies him but an unlimited submission. Disrespect or anything tending towards sauciness he may punish with his cane or his horsewhip with the most perfect security. A poor man would have his bones broken if he offered to lift his hand in his own defence.
Page 154 - Council, issued the most direct and positive orders to the officers cora" manding his Majesty's forces to employ them with the utmost vigour " and decision for the immediate suppression thereof, and also to " recover the arms which have been traitorously forced from his Majesty's " peaceable and loyal subjects, and to disarm the rebels, and all persons " disaffected to his Majesty's government, by the most summary and
Page 55 - To subvert the tyranny of our execrable Government, to break the connection with England, the neverfailing source of all our political evils, and to assert the independence of my country — these were my objects. To unite the whole people of Ireland, to abolish the memory of all past dissensions, and to substitute the common name of Irishman in place of the denominations of Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter — these were my means.
Page 16 - I find by my own and others' inquiries that the people of every religion, country, and party here, are alike set against Wood's halfpence, and that their agreement in this has had a very unhappy influence on the state of this nation, by bringing on intimacies between Papists and Jacobites, and the Whigs, who before had no correspondence with them...
Page 101 - While the formation of these societies was in agitation, the friends of liberty were gradually, but with a timid step, advancing towards republicanism; they began to be convinced, that it would be as easy to obtain a revolution as a reform, so obstinately was the latter resisted, and as the...
Page 29 - ... of his gown only as a just sacrifice upon the altar of his country; that strong statement, rather than pathetic supplication, was adapted to the crisis ; and he proposed to Mr.
Page 237 - I stand upon this sacred and immutable principle of the Constitution, that martial law and civil law are incompatible, and that the former must cease with the existence of the latter.