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“Illoyal, Lawless, Irreligious Banditti”

In the 1770s, twenty years before the United Irishmen, there occurred an armed rising by the poor people of Ulster, mainly Presbyterians, against injustice and oppression. The rising was to last almost four years. It witnessed assemblies of armed men, the storming of towns and even battles. Writing a hundred years later, W.E.H. Lecky described … Read more

Categories 18th–19th - Century History, Features, Issue 4 (Winter 1999), Volume 7

Overmighty Officers

The historian William Camden, writing in Britaine (1610) described the lord deputy’s authority as ‘very large, ample and royal. And verily there is not (look throughout all Christendom againe) any other vice-roy that commeth nearer the majesty of a king, whether you respect his jurisdiction or authority or his traine, furniture and provision’. The travel-writer … Read more

Categories Early Modern History (1500–1700), Features, Issue 4 (Winter 1999), Volume 7
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