Above : Painting Of John Fitzgibbon, The One Who Attacked The Volunteers

No course more injudicious OT more certain to provoke the hostility of Parliament could well have been conceived. It was absurd to expect that the legally established legislative assembly of the country would tamely submit to the dictation of an unauthorised, semi-military rival Parliament, sitting at its very doors ; unless indeed it were coerced by violence or moved by fear of such violence to do so. That no such fear appears to have been entertained by this unarmed body of legislators 6hows what confidence in the peaceable intentions of the Volunteers was felt, even by those who most strongly opposed them.

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 Above : Illustration Picture Of Sir Edward Poynings