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In considering the unsuccessful struggle in which my brother was engaged, many are too apt to forget the evils of the time: the grinding oppression under which the people laboured; the contempt in which public opinion was held; the policy which prevented its expression and intimidated the press. The only means then existing of stemming the torrent of corruption and oppression was tried, and they failed, but the failure . . . was not without its beneficial effects.
-- Mary Ann McCracken |
Correct View of the New French Calendar for the year 1793, commencing September 22
'Agrarian Rebels, Secret Societies and Defenders'. From
The men of no property, Irish Radicals and Popular Politics in the Late Eighteenth Century, by Jim Smyth, 1992.
Before my God and my country I speak of what I myself have seen. I have seen in Ireland the most absurd as well as the most disgusting tyranny that any nation ever groaned under. I have seen troops sent full of this prejudice, that every inhabitant of that kingdom is a rebel to the British Government. The most wanton insults, the most cowardly oppression practised upon men of all ranks and conditions, in a part of the country as free from disturbance as the City of London. Thirty houses are sometimes burned in a single night, but from prudential motives I wish to draw a veil over more aggravated facts.
Lord Moira speaking in British House of Lords in 1798. |
'The Rise of the Defenders 1793-95' From
The men of no property, Irish Radicals and Popular Politics in the Late Eighteenth Century, by Jim Smyth, 1992.
The Battle of Kilcumney (Poem)
Extracts from
Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone
Original Declaration of the United Irishmen
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Near the town of Newry, on the 23rd of June (St John's eve), a number of people, gathered round a bonfire, were deliberately fired upon by a corps of yeomanry, many of them being killed and many wounded. When some of the more humane magistrates of the county applied to Government for assistance, they received from Mr Trail, secretary to the Duke of Richmond, an answer to this effect: -- That the Government could not accede to their request as any steps taken by them would supersede the exertions of the local magistrates. It is needless to say that no steps were ever taken, and these murderers escaped, at least from
human
justice. Thus did the Government evince its determination to rule through the Orange magistrates, to the entire exclusion of the Liberal Protestants.
-- Carlow Magazine, date unknown |
Sean McGOLDRICK |