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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... occasion was frequent and barefaced to a degree almost beyond belief . The very stews were raked , and the goals rummaged , in search of evidence ; and the most notoriously profli- gate in both were selected and tampered with , to give ...
... occasion was frequent and barefaced to a degree almost beyond belief . The very stews were raked , and the goals rummaged , in search of evidence ; and the most notoriously profli- gate in both were selected and tampered with , to give ...
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... occasion , riotously opposed to the notion of a union with Great Britain ; † and so little in love with the Protestant church , when their pockets were concerned , as to vote the levying of tithe of agistment injurious to the Protestant ...
... occasion , riotously opposed to the notion of a union with Great Britain ; † and so little in love with the Protestant church , when their pockets were concerned , as to vote the levying of tithe of agistment injurious to the Protestant ...
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... occasion . This appropriation question of the reign of George II . was something more , in its results , than a mere dispute of parliamentary form and privilege . It powerfully aided and quickened the growth of a spirit of nationality ...
... occasion . This appropriation question of the reign of George II . was something more , in its results , than a mere dispute of parliamentary form and privilege . It powerfully aided and quickened the growth of a spirit of nationality ...
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... occasion , subject unpopular representatives to a description of " individual and per- sonal responsibility , " more stringent and summary than constitutional . The operation of Poyning's Law suggested to the embarrassed legislators an ...
... occasion , subject unpopular representatives to a description of " individual and per- sonal responsibility , " more stringent and summary than constitutional . The operation of Poyning's Law suggested to the embarrassed legislators an ...
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... occasion as well as they could . But they were soon spared the awkwardness of assumed felicity . " The bill is not only returned , ' continued their chieftain , but - but - the parliament is DISSOLVED ! ' 66 Hypocrisy far more ...
... occasion as well as they could . But they were soon spared the awkwardness of assumed felicity . " The bill is not only returned , ' continued their chieftain , but - but - the parliament is DISSOLVED ! ' 66 Hypocrisy far more ...
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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.