Above : Picture Of Thomas Addis Emmet, Older Brother Of Robert Emmet In speaking of the Rebellion of 1798 mention has been made of Thomas Addis Emmet, one of the United Irishmen, who, arrested before the outbreak, escaped a capital sentence, and ended his days in exile. He had a younger brother, Robert, who in 1798 was a student of Trinity College, Dublin. Robert adopted with enthusiasm the French Revolutionary principles, and enunciated them so openly that he was expelled from the University ... Read More

Above: The Plantation of Ulster We shall now go back a few years. Tlie Catholics still clung to the hope that their religion would be restored. But they found their mistake when king James, in 1605, caused the two penal Acts of supremacy and uniformity to be revived. By the Act of supremacy no Catholic, without taking the oath of supremacy, could hold any office under government, could practise as a lawyer, act as a magistrate, ... Read More