The History of the Late Grand Insurrection: Or the Struggle for Liberty in Ireland |
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... brought to any quarter in case of emergency . THE association for preserving the peace of the county , assembled always at Enniscorthy , ( that being the most central situation . ) AT the meetings of the association , I perceived , with ...
... brought to any quarter in case of emergency . THE association for preserving the peace of the county , assembled always at Enniscorthy , ( that being the most central situation . ) AT the meetings of the association , I perceived , with ...
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... brought forward in parliament . It was even suggested , that these measures might go hand in hand with the other ; but he preferred being recalled to giving his support to a business that so strongly met his disapprobation ; nor ...
... brought forward in parliament . It was even suggested , that these measures might go hand in hand with the other ; but he preferred being recalled to giving his support to a business that so strongly met his disapprobation ; nor ...
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... brought the distresses of Ireland before the British house of lords , on the 22d of November 1797 ; when he gave a heart - rending description , in his native strain of elevation , of the savage cruelties practised by the military ...
... brought the distresses of Ireland before the British house of lords , on the 22d of November 1797 ; when he gave a heart - rending description , in his native strain of elevation , of the savage cruelties practised by the military ...
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... brought to trial for spreading false news , and alarming the country ; it was clearly proved , that this man circulated a report of the arrival of the French off Bantry , and that the yeomen or orangemen ( indifferently supposed by the ...
... brought to trial for spreading false news , and alarming the country ; it was clearly proved , that this man circulated a report of the arrival of the French off Bantry , and that the yeomen or orangemen ( indifferently supposed by the ...
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... brought into a guard - house , where caps either of coarse linen or strong brown paper , besmeared in- side with pitch , were always kept ready for service . The unfortunate victim had one of these well heated , compressed on his head ...
... brought into a guard - house , where caps either of coarse linen or strong brown paper , besmeared in- side with pitch , were always kept ready for service . The unfortunate victim had one of these well heated , compressed on his head ...
Common terms and phrases
appear Arklow arms army arrived attack Ballina battle battle of Ballinamuck BATTLE OF CASTLEBAR body brought camp cannon Capt Captain Carnew Castlebar cavalry colonel commander in chief conduct corps coun county of Wexford death detachment dragoons Dublin Dunshaughlin encamped endeavoured enemy English Enniscorthy fencibles fire force Foxford French gentlemen Gorey Granard Grogan guard Harvey hill horse hundred immediately infantry inhabitants instantly insurgents insurrection Ireland Irish John John Grogan justice Killala killed liberty Lieut Lieutenant Lord loyal loyalists magistrates marched ment miles military militia morning Murphy nation night North Cork North Cork militia o'clock occasion officers parliament party persons pikes plunder priest prisoners protestant rebellion rebels regiment retreat Roche Roman Catholics Ross sent serjeant shot soldiers spirit suffered Taghmon taken Three-rocks Tinehaly tion took town trial troops United Irishmen Vinegar-hill whole wounded yeomen yeomenry
Popular passages
Page 324 - 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 BO grievous that they cry to heaven. Be yet patient ! I have but a few words more to say.
Page 317 - I only to suffer death, after being adjudged guilty by your tribunal, I should bow in silence, and meet the fate that awaits me without a murmur; but the sentence of the law which delivers my body to the executioner, will, through the ministry of that law, labour in its own vindication to consign my character to obloquy...
Page 173 - ... a proscription that certainly exceeds, in the comparative number of those it consigns to ruin and misery, every example that ancient and modern history can supply : for, where have we heard...
Page 12 - Wexford forces, now innumerable and irresistible, will not be controlled, if they meet with resistance. To prevent, therefore, the total ruin of all property in the town, I urge you to a speedy surrender, which you will be forced to in a few hours, with loss and bloodshed, as you are surrounded on all sides.
Page 317 - I wish that my memory and name may animate those who survive me, while I look down with complacency on the destruction of that perfidious government which upholds its domination by blasphemy of the Most High; which displays its power over man as over the beasts of the forest; which sets man upon his brother and lifts his hand in the name of God against the throat of his fellow...
Page 316 - What have I to say why sentence of death should not be pronounced on me according to law?
Page 299 - Sir ; — I have the honour to acquaint you, for the information of his excellency the commander...
Page 324 - I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world — it is the charity of its silence. Let no man write my epitaph, for as no man who knows my motives dares NOW vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them.
Page 323 - 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...
Page 316 - 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.