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Resolutions of the Lurgan Orangemen

Another of those intemperate fulminations has made its appearance, from one of the hot-beds of outrageous loyalty, as a declaration of the principles of the Loyal Orange Association of the district of Lurgan, of which the following, if not a strictly literal transcript, is a true interpretation. Resolved, that the principles of the Orange institution originated in. the year 1688, yet those principles…

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The War in Wexford

Some eighteen months ago three MSS. of undeniable importance to a correct appreciation of one of the most interesting phases of Irish history, viz. the brief but bloody conflict in Wexford during the summer of 1798, were placed at the disposal of the writers. These documents consisted of the following items: 1st, the holograph correspondence of Arthur, Earl of Mount Norris, ranging from the 27th December,…

28 January 2016 09:14 AM

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Ireland (1912)

To the genuine explorer, flushed with justified self confidence, well equipped for the journey, and indifferent to scratches or bruises, one may suppose this to be rather an allurement than otherwise, as he spurs along, lance at rest, and sword on side. To the less well-equipped traveler, who has no pretensions to the name of explorer at all, no particular courage to boast of, and whose only ambition…

15 January 2016 07:05 AM

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Ireland (1922)

Ireland deserves to be known for her varied scenery, her wealth of archaeological and antiquarian lore, her noble educational traditions, and her literary and artistic achievements. The progress and status of Ireland as an agricultural country are recognized and acknowledged, but her industrial potentialities have, until recently, been inadequately studied. The causes of the arrested development of…

15 January 2016 07:04 AM

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Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (1878)

The opening Volume of the Fourth Series of our Journal is herewith brought to a conclusion and, in the variety and value of its papers, it will be found to be not unworthy of its predecessors. To Sir William R. Wilde, whose loss to Irish Archaeology we can hardly hope to see filled, our Members were indebted for the graphic notices of Gabriel Beranger's labours in the cause of our country's…

15 January 2016 06:59 AM

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A History of County Dublin Volume 1 (1902)

My aim has been to interest the ordinary reader, rather than the specialist, who can best obtain his information from original authorities; and for this reason I have avoided technical descriptions and details. As the events of the last hundred years would have occupied an undue proportion of the history I have practically confined its scope to the conclusion of the eighteenth century. The parish,…

11 January 2016 04:02 PM

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A History of County Dublin Volume 2 (1902)

My aim has been to interest the ordinary reader, rather than the specialist, who can best obtain his information from original authorities; and for this reason I have avoided technical descriptions and details. As the events of the last hundred years would have occupied an undue proportion of the history I have practically confined its scope to the conclusion of the eighteenth century. The parish,…

11 January 2016 04:02 PM

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A History of County Dublin Volume 3 (1902)

My aim has been to interest the ordinary reader, rather than the specialist, who can best obtain his information from original authorities; and for this reason I have avoided technical descriptions and details. As the events of the last hundred years would have occupied an undue proportion of the history I have practically confined its scope to the conclusion of the eighteenth century. The parish,…

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A History of County Dublin Volume 5 (1917)

My aim has been to interest the ordinary reader, rather than the specialist, who can best obtain his information from original authorities; and for this reason I have avoided technical descriptions and details. As the events of the last hundred years would have occupied an undue proportion of the history I have practically confined its scope to the conclusion of the eighteenth century. The parish,…

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A History of County Dublin Volume 6 (1920)

My aim has been to interest the ordinary reader, rather than the specialist, who can best obtain his information from original authorities; and for this reason I have avoided technical descriptions and details. As the events of the last hundred years would have occupied an undue proportion of the history I have practically confined its scope to the conclusion of the eighteenth century. The parish,…

11 January 2016 03:58 PM

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The Great Famine of 1847

The Author of this volume has, for a considerable time, been of opinion, that the leading facts of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 ought to be put together without unnecessary delay. Several reasons occurred to him why such a work should be done: the magnitude of the Famine itself; the peculiarity of its immediate cause; its influence on the destiny of the Irish Race. That there should be no unnecessary…

08 January 2016 04:56 AM

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An Ulsterman for Ireland (1917)

John Mitchel, an Ulster Protestant, wrote these letters to the Ulster Protestant democracy in April and May of 1848. The disgraceful Treason-Felony Act had just been enacted, enabling the Government to treat Irish political offences on a level with the vilest crimes. Ireland had just passed through three years of famine and famine-fever, the unchecked consequences of her ruthless Government, and had…

08 January 2016 04:00 AM

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Cork, its trade & commerce (1919)

The Cork Incorporated Chamber of Commerce and Shipping presents this, the First edition of the Commercial Handbook, in order to show in a concise form the Commercial and Industrial facilities which the City and surrounding districts offer, to focus attention on our Commerce and Industry, and to give reliable information to those seeking locations for new works or the extension of existing ones. By…

08 January 2016 03:51 AM

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First Newry Presbyterian Congregation

While in the main the material used was derived from official records, I desire to acknowledge my indebtedness to Dr. F. C. Crossle for valuable information to which he was my guide, and to the proprietor of the " Newry Telegraph " for access to its files; also the help I received from a lecture by the Rev. J. Elliott on Presbyterianism in Newry, delivered in 1864. I hope what I have written…

05 January 2016 07:19 AM

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The Irish Land Acts, 1903 to 1909 Part One

This volume is intended to replace the previous Supplement. which has been rendered obsolete by the numerous changes which have recently been made. Since 1906 four more Statutes have been added to the Irish Land Purchase Code; the latest the Irish Land Act of 1909 has made many important alterations: the rate of purchase annuities has been increased, the bonus has been fixed upon a sliding scale,…

03 January 2016 03:19 AM

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The Irish Land Acts, 1903 to 1909 Part Two

This volume is intended to replace the previous Supplement. which has been rendered obsolete by the numerous changes which have recently been made. Since 1906 four more Statutes have been added to the Irish Land Purchase Code; the latest the Irish Land Act of 1909 has made many important alterations: the rate of purchase annuities has been increased, the bonus has been fixed upon a sliding scale,…

03 January 2016 03:18 AM

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Poor Laws for Ireland (1833)

The popular view of the Irish poor law is dominated by the image of the workhouse. Built according to a standard plan, Irish workhouses were forbidding structures that became a significant architectural feature of the Irish countryside. The workhouse reformer, Laura Stephens, observed that a visitor to an Irish town would have no difficulty in recognising the workhouse 'for the great gloomy pile…

03 January 2016 01:46 AM

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History of the Survey of Ireland (Down Survey)

This is unquestionably a very valuable manuscript, and contains an historical relation of proceedings taken towards carrying into effect the Act passed in the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England, in 1653, for the Survey and Distribution of the Forfeited Lands in Ireland, drawn up by Sir William Petty himself, in vindication of his conduct in the business, and in answer to the charges brought…

02 January 2016 04:35 PM

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A History of the Irish Settlers in North America (1852)

And so Ireland advances her claim to respect and remembrance as a contributor to this world's work. She also has helped to reclaim the land from barrenness, and to liberate it from oppression. Her sons have made many a clearing, found many a ford, worked out many a noble plan, fighting stoutly for their new country, on land and sea, when so required. Ireland, which has furnished actors to every…

02 January 2016 04:19 PM

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The Irish on the Somme

This narrative is concerned chiefly with the three distinctively Irish units of the New Armies engaged on the Western Front—the Ulster Division, the Irish Division (representative of the south and west), and the "Tyneside Irish," in which Irishmen living in the north of England enlisted. It also deals incidentally with the Irish Regular regiments of the Line, and with that numerous body…

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The Parish of Shankill

Malone, the Falls, and the Cinament form the subdivisions of the parish. Malone seems to have extended from the Lagan to the Blackstaff ; the Falls from the Owen-varra, now the Blackstaff, to the Farset, or Belfast river, except the district around the Church ; and the Cinament from the Farset to the Glas-na-bradden,* with, in addition, two half townlands near the Church. But it should be remembered…

29 December 2015 04:39 PM

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Old Belfast Signboards

From the time when mankind first congregated together, forming towns and villages, signs have been in use to indicate the residence of craftsman or of merchant. Indeed, outside the English garrison town of Carrickfergus, signs were unknown until they were brought over by the settlers in the beginning of the seventeenth century. The earliest of thesementioned in the list of Belfast signs given in this…

29 December 2015 01:15 PM

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The Ulster Journal of Archaeology Vol. X (1904)

The action by which Chichester originally introduced himself to public notice was one that did not at first commend itself to the powers that be. He was compelled to make a very hasty retreat from his native place in Devonshire, in consequence of his having been criminally concerned in a highway robbery. With the connivance or assistance of one or two associates, he lay in wait for and robbed a "…

29 December 2015 01:11 PM

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Ulster in 1798

In Belfast, Lisburn, and Carrickfergus, the disaffected were awed into submission by their numerous garrisons; hence no hostile movements were observed in those places, but some days previous several zealous adherents from those towns passed out into the country, and were actively employed in the insurgent ranks. In every other town in the County of Antrim risings in a greater or lesser degree took…

29 December 2015 01:05 PM

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A History of Ireland Written in 1571

IRELAND lieth a-loofe in the West Ocean, and is deemed by the later Survey, to be in length well-nigh three hundred miles north & south : broad from East to West one hundred and twentie. In proportion it resembleth an egge, blunt and plaine on the sides, not reaching forth to Sea, in nookes and elbowes of Land, as Brittaine doth. Long since, it was devided into foure regions, Leinster East, Connaght…

27 December 2015 07:03 AM

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Early Christian Ireland

In the following account of the Social and Church life of Christian Ireland, I have, as far as possible, let the old records tell their own story, refraining from unnecessary comment. My object is not to discuss the position and religious beliefs of the Irish Church, but to show the practical effect of its influence on the daily life of the people. There will always be questions connected with the…

27 December 2015 06:59 AM

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Celtic Ireland (1889)

The study of history, at its best, implies inquiry into the means by which human character, in any of its national varieties, has developed itself. In the study of Irish history, more perhaps than in that of any other, writers and readers are alike apt to lose sight of this. Attention is concentrated, not unnaturally, on the melancholy story of the Anglo-Irish quarrel, and generally with a view to…

27 December 2015 06:57 AM

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The History of Belfast

Belfast is not an ancient city. We cannot, as in the case of many a town in Great Britain, go back to the early centuries and discover in a Roman fortification a military origin, nor can we go to mediaeval times and find in a church or monastery an ecclesiastical beginning. Of Ireland it can be said that no Caesar with his Roman legions came, saw and conquered. Although Agricola in the first century…

26 December 2015 04:01 AM

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The Council Book of Cork (1876)

The Council Books of the Corporation of Cork are undoubtedly the most valuable records we possess relating to the Civil History of the City, during the period they embrace. They are the proceedings of the municipal body, faithfully recorded as the events took place, and attested by their signatures.

26 December 2015 02:40 AM

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Landlords and Tenants in Ireland (1881)

Many large estates unfortunately illustrate the evils of subdivided tenancies too small to furnish decent subsistence for their holders. In the poor county of Mayo, for example, nine owners hold upwards of 20,000 acres, or together half a million acres, being considerably more than one-third of the county. At the opposite extremity of the social scale, with few intermediate connecting links, are half…

25 December 2015 07:07 PM

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An Irish - English Dictionary 1768

The tedious and difficult task of both compiling and correcting the Irish Dictionary now offered to the public hath been undertaken by its editor with a view not only to preserve for the natives of Ireland, but also to recommend to the notice of other countries, a language that is asserted by very learned foreigners to be the most ancient and best preserved dialect of the old Celtic tongue of the…

25 December 2015 09:19 AM

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