History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798: With Memoirs of the Union, and Emmett's Insurrection in 1803G. Bell, 1894 - 477 Seiten |
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... Defenders - a lawless confederacy , exclusively Catholic - became general , and the Protestants associated for self - defence . A conflict between the rival religionists took place at a place called " the Diamond , " in the county of ...
... Defenders - a lawless confederacy , exclusively Catholic - became general , and the Protestants associated for self - defence . A conflict between the rival religionists took place at a place called " the Diamond , " in the county of ...
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... was levelled immediately against an irregular confederacy of men who , nder the name of Defenders , infested the counties of Roscommon , Leitrim , Long- There is no doubt that these stringent powers were afterwards IRISH REBELLION . 7.
... was levelled immediately against an irregular confederacy of men who , nder the name of Defenders , infested the counties of Roscommon , Leitrim , Long- There is no doubt that these stringent powers were afterwards IRISH REBELLION . 7.
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... Defenders . " The Star " was the avowed organ of the revolutionary party - and as its violence increased , a numerous proprietary retired by degrees . The stupid ruin into which political insanity will hurry individuals , was never more ...
... Defenders . " The Star " was the avowed organ of the revolutionary party - and as its violence increased , a numerous proprietary retired by degrees . The stupid ruin into which political insanity will hurry individuals , was never more ...
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... Defenders and Peep - o ' - day - Boys . He came under the surveillance of the executive , was arrested in October , 1796 , trans- mitted to Dublin , and committed first to Newgate , and afterwards to Kilmainham . After an imprisonment ...
... Defenders and Peep - o ' - day - Boys . He came under the surveillance of the executive , was arrested in October , 1796 , trans- mitted to Dublin , and committed first to Newgate , and afterwards to Kilmainham . After an imprisonment ...
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... Defenders had been anxious to obtain foreign assistance , and had applied to the authorities in Paris , through some members of their society , who had been obliged to expatriate themselves and seek refuge abroad . Many circumstances go ...
... Defenders had been anxious to obtain foreign assistance , and had applied to the authorities in Paris , through some members of their society , who had been obliged to expatriate themselves and seek refuge abroad . Many circumstances go ...
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afterwards Antrim appeared Arklow arms army arrest attack attempt Ballina body Britain British Captain Carnew castle Castlebar cavalry character Colonel column command committee consequence conspiracy corps death declared defeat Defenders disaffected dragoons Dublin effect Emmet endeavoured enemy Enniscorthy escape execution Father Murphy favour fencibles fire force French friends garrison gentlemen Gorey guns honour Humbert hundred infantry insurgents insurrection Ireland Irish John John Sheares Killalla killed King's kingdom leaders liberty Lieutenant Lord Castlereagh Lord Cornwallis Lord Edward Lord Edward Fitzgerald ment miles military militia morning murder Musgrave Neilson never night North Cork Militia officers parliament party persons pikes political present prisoners proceeded Protestants rebellion rebels regiment retreat returned Roman Catholics royalists sanguinary shew shot Sir Charles Asgill soldiers spirit surrender taken tion took town treason troops union United Irishmen Vinegar-hill Wexford wounded wretched yeomanry yeomen
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Seite 427 - My lords, it may be a part of the system of angry justice to bow a man's mind by humiliation to the purposed ignominy of the scaffold; but worse to me than the...
Seite 429 - Let no man dare, when I am dead, to charge me with dishonor; let no man attaint my memory by believing that I could have engaged in any cause but that of my country's liberty and independence...
Seite 427 - I shall not forbear to vindicate my character and motives from your aspersions; and, as a man, to whom fame is dearer than life, I will make the last use of that life in doing justice to that reputation which is to live after me, and which is the only legacy I can leave to those I honor and love, and for whom I am proud to perish.
Seite 425 - What have I to say, why sentence of death should not be pronounced on me, according to law ? — I have nothing to say that can alter your predetermination, nor that it will become me to say, with any view to the mitigation of that sentence which you are here to pronounce, and I must abide by.
Seite 321 - ... catacombs of living death, where the wretch that is buried a man, lies till his heart has time to fester and dissolve, and is then dug up a witness.
Seite 429 - I am accountable for all the blood that has, and will be shed in this struggle of the oppressed against the oppressor, shall you tell me this.... and must I be so very a slave as not to repel it ? I...
Seite 430 - My lords, you are impatient for the sacrifice — the blood which you seek is not congealed by the artificial terrors which surround your victim; it circulates warmly and unruffled, through the channels which God created for noble purposes, but which you are bent to destroy, for purposes so grievous, that they cry to heaven. Be yet patient!
Seite 427 - I say this for the petty gratification of giving you a transitory uneasiness; a man who never yet raised his voice to assert a lie, will not hazard his character with posterity by asserting a falsehood on a subject so important to his country, and on an occasion like this.
Seite 428 - I am charged with being an emissary of France. An emissary of France ! and for what end? It is alleged that I wished to sell the independence of my country; and for what end?
Seite 200 - The only crime which the wretched objects of this ruthless persecution are charged...