• Thumbnail for Society of United Irishmen
    The Society of United Irishmen was a sworn association, formed in the wake of the French Revolution, to secure representative government in Ireland. Despairing...
    147 KB (17,670 words) - 04:01, 22 June 2024
  • of the Society of United Irishmen was a pledge taken by members of the Society of United Irishmen, a republican political society in the Kingdom of Ireland...
    10 KB (1,285 words) - 06:31, 12 March 2024
  • was the newspaper of the Society of United Irishmen, which was published from 1792 until its suppression in May 1797 by a group of Monaghan militiamen...
    5 KB (662 words) - 18:16, 23 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for Fenian Brotherhood
    establishment of an Irish Republic. The rebellion was suppressed, but the principles of the United Irishmen were to have a powerful influence on the course of Irish...
    23 KB (2,919 words) - 17:08, 5 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Irish Rebellion of 1798
    the separate, but subordinate, Kingdom of Ireland. The main organising force was the Society of United Irishmen. First formed in Belfast by Presbyterians...
    135 KB (14,667 words) - 20:52, 22 June 2024
  • north of Ireland who was active in the Society of the United Irishmen and was hanged with Henry Joy McCracken for leading rebels at the Battle of Antrim...
    7 KB (800 words) - 12:13, 27 June 2023
  • By 1797, the Society of United Irishmen had around 100,000 members. Crossing the religious divide in Ireland, it had a mixed membership of Catholics, Presbyterians...
    88 KB (11,155 words) - 03:46, 6 July 2024
  • Defenders (Ireland) (category Irish agrarian protest societies)
    become a secret oath-bound fraternal society made up of lodges. By 1796, the Defenders had allied with the United Irishmen, and participated in the 1798 rebellion...
    11 KB (1,423 words) - 17:26, 18 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Pitchcapping
    Pitchcapping (category Irish Rebellion of 1798)
    prominent victim of pitchcapping was Anthony Perry, a leader of the Wexford Rebellion.[citation needed] Society of United Irishmen member Myles Byrne...
    4 KB (470 words) - 21:35, 8 April 2024
  • of administering the test, or membership pledge, of the Society of United Irishmen. Having despaired of either the Crown in London or the Ascendancy parliament...
    6 KB (635 words) - 19:51, 31 May 2024