Ireland History – Northern Irish History Belfast Dublin

Above : Illustrating Picture Of Samuel Neilson In A Meeting The progress of the French Revolution was watched with great interest in Ireland. Many of the Catholic gentry had spent some years of their youth at one or other of the French colleges, or had relatives or friends serving in the Irish Brigade. These, as [...]

Above : Painting Of Daniel O’Connell We have seen how discouragement had come upon the Catholics after the successive failures of the petitions which they addressed to Parliament in the first two decades of the century, praying for the removal of their remaining disabilities. They were now to find amongst the men of their own [...]