History of the Irish Rebellion of 1798Quarter bound in leather with marbled boards Handwritten note ot say that 'the author of this work is Fitzpatrick a well known Dublin publisher, signed by P O'Brian? No title page. |
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... ARMY GETTING READY . CHAPTER XI . THEOBALD WOLFE TONE IN FRANCE - THE BANTRY BAY EXPE- DITION 99 • 110 CHAPTER XII . IRELAND IN 1797 - THE LAST OF CONCILIATION AND REFORM- SECESSION OF THE WHIG OPPOSITION PROGRESS OF THE UNITED IRISHMEN ...
... ARMY GETTING READY . CHAPTER XI . THEOBALD WOLFE TONE IN FRANCE - THE BANTRY BAY EXPE- DITION 99 • 110 CHAPTER XII . IRELAND IN 1797 - THE LAST OF CONCILIATION AND REFORM- SECESSION OF THE WHIG OPPOSITION PROGRESS OF THE UNITED IRISHMEN ...
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... army , from the magistracy , from the law . They were excluded from parliament , from juries , from elections . They could not buy land , they could not bear arms , they could not educate their chil- dren , they could not intermarry ...
... army , from the magistracy , from the law . They were excluded from parliament , from juries , from elections . They could not buy land , they could not bear arms , they could not educate their chil- dren , they could not intermarry ...
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... army of penal laws ; so that the old deficiency of revenue is brought about again by the smuggler who defrauds , and by the job of government that intercepts the revenue , and the practice of running in debt is thus rendered immortal ...
... army of penal laws ; so that the old deficiency of revenue is brought about again by the smuggler who defrauds , and by the job of government that intercepts the revenue , and the practice of running in debt is thus rendered immortal ...
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... army ( October , 1777 ) was the signal for France , and afterwards for Spain and Holland , to recognise and aid the young Transatlantic republic . The privateers of the allies swept the seas ; a French invasion of Ireland was menaced ...
... army ( October , 1777 ) was the signal for France , and afterwards for Spain and Holland , to recognise and aid the young Transatlantic republic . The privateers of the allies swept the seas ; a French invasion of Ireland was menaced ...
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... ARMY . Already had some detached volunteer corps been formed in different parts of the country , by public - spirited individuals , in anticipation of local exi- gencies ; but with the summer of 1778 , the arming became general and ...
... ARMY . Already had some detached volunteer corps been formed in different parts of the country , by public - spirited individuals , in anticipation of local exi- gencies ; but with the summer of 1778 , the arming became general and ...
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agitation arms army artillery 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 Killala 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 organisation Papists parliament parliamentary party patriots persons pike political Popish popular prisoners proceedings proclamation Protestant Protestant ascendancy 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 Volunteers Wexford whole Wicklow yeomanry
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Page 5 - I have come to cast upon the earth: fire, sword, and war. For there will be five in a house: three will be against two, and two against three, the father against the son, and the son against the father. And they will stand solitary.
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 - 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 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 62 - I will endeavour as much as lies in my ability to forward a brotherhood of affection, an identity of interests, a communion of rights, and a union of power among Irishmen of all religious persuasions, without which every reform in parliament must be partial, not national, inadequate to the wants, delusive to the wishes, and insufficient for the freedom and happiness of this country.
Page 57 - В., in the presence of God, do pledge myself to my country that I will use all my abilities and influence in the attainment of an impartial and adequate representation of the Irish nation in parliament...
Page 133 - I have seen in Ireland the most absurd as well as the most disgusting tyranny that any nation ever groaned under.
Page 7 - All the penal laws of that unparalleled code of oppression which were made after the last event, were manifestly the effects of national hatred and scorn towards a conquered people ; whom the victors delighted to trample upon, and were not at all afraid to provoke. They were not the effect of their fears but of their security.
Page 154 - ... 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 effectual measures.
Page 6 - 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.