WILLIAM SHARMAN CRAWFORD AND THE REVIVAL OF ULSTER RADICALISM

By Peter Gray The collapse of Protestant radicalism in Ulster in the wake of the 1798 Rebellion has attracted much historical discussion. From being an epicentre of United Irish activity in the 1790s, Belfast and its rural hinterland appeared to have abandoned such enthusiasms and reoriented themselves to a conservative unionism over the following century. ... Read more

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