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The Society of United Irishmen was a sworn association, formed in the wake of the French Revolution, to secure representative government in Ireland. Despairing of constitutional reform, and in defiance both of British Crown forces and of Irish sectarian division, in 1798 the United Irishmen instigated a republican rebellion.
James Dickey (1775/1776 – 26 June 1798) was a young barrister from a Presbyterian family in Crumlin in the 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.
The Test 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, that was the main organising force in the rebellion of 1798. As the Society, despairing of reform, began to arm and drill, it amended the original wording to accommodate greater ...
While McTier was not a member of the original 11 men who founded the Society, he was appointed the first President of the Belfast United Irishmen. [5] Thereafter the McTier home, with Martha taking an active interest, became a centre for United Irish gatherings and meetings. [6]
Robert Simms (20 March 1761 – 1843) was an Irish radical, and a founding member in Belfast of the Society of United Irishmen.Opposed to insurrection in the absence of French assistance, he resigned his military commission in the Society on the eve of the 1798 rebellion.
It was a politics shared by other Irish immigrants whom the Benevolent Hibernian Society sought to assist. An advertisement placed by the society in a Baltimore paper in 1803 speaks of many of these arriving "in a friendless and forlorn condition, deprived of health and an asylum" but with "a claim upon those who have preceded them".
Reverend William Sinclair (died 1830) was an Irish Presbyterian minister and, as a radical democrat, a member of the Society of United Irishmen. Forced after the rebellion of 1798 into American exile, he became a leading figure in the Irish immigrant community in Baltimore.
Fully persuaded of Tone's case that London-appointed Irish executive exploited sectarian division to balance “the one party by the other, plunder and laugh at the defeat of both,” McCabe and his friends formed themselves as the Society of United Irishmen. They would oppose "the weight of English influence" by securing an Irish parliament in ...