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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... thousand Protestants over two millions of slaves we find not in the statute - book alone , nor on the journals of the House of Commons alone . We meet it everywhere in the Ireland of the eighteenth century , pervading with one universal ...
... thousand Protestants over two millions of slaves we find not in the statute - book alone , nor on the journals of the House of Commons alone . We meet it everywhere in the Ireland of the eighteenth century , pervading with one universal ...
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... thousand Protest- ants with the sweets of having two millions of slaves . " We have followed the domineering aristocracy from the business of law - making into private life , and have seen the grand collective and incorporated tyranny ...
... thousand Protest- ants with the sweets of having two millions of slaves . " We have followed the domineering aristocracy from the business of law - making into private life , and have seen the grand collective and incorporated tyranny ...
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... thousand and more , well appointed , well disciplined , and well officered , with the flower of the demo- cracy in its ranks , and the heads of the aristocracy for its commanders - in- chief . The government was astounded . Dublin ...
... thousand and more , well appointed , well disciplined , and well officered , with the flower of the demo- cracy in its ranks , and the heads of the aristocracy for its commanders - in- chief . The government was astounded . Dublin ...
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... thousand soldiers , to collect the sentiments of the Irish people . " 66 The 15th day of February , 1782 , witnessed what Grattan called a great original transaction , " which had no precedent , and needed none . Two hundred armed and ...
... thousand soldiers , to collect the sentiments of the Irish people . " 66 The 15th day of February , 1782 , witnessed what Grattan called a great original transaction , " which had no precedent , and needed none . Two hundred armed and ...
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... thousand disposable troops , to meet a hundred thousand volunteers , and two hundred pieces of artillery . In answer to the Lord Lieutenant's most gracious speech of the 27th , Mr. Grattan , in the fulness of his heart , moved an ...
... thousand disposable troops , to meet a hundred thousand volunteers , and two hundred pieces of artillery . In answer to the Lord Lieutenant's most gracious speech of the 27th , Mr. Grattan , in the fulness of his heart , moved an ...
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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.