David Manson’s Play School

A voice for the voiceless, she fought tirelessly for the disenfranchised and for the impoverished people in Belfast and beyond. Throughout her life, she campaigned for many issues including prison and social reform, the welfare of children and the abolition of ‘the diabolical system of slavery’.

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Theobald Wolfe ToneHenry Joy McCrackenThomas RussellWilliam DrennanJames Napper Tandy

The United Irishmen believed that religion was used by those in power to divide Irish people when they should be united. They believed people of all religious beliefs should have a say in how the country was run. The United Irishmen were banned by the authorities in 1793 because their ideas were becoming popular.

The Irish Rebellion of 1641 (Irish: Éirí Amach 1641) was an uprising by Irish Catholics in the kingdom of Ireland, who wanted an end to anti-Catholic discrimination, greater Irish self-governance, and to partially or fully reverse the plantations of Ireland.

There were many reasons why the rebellion of 1798 started in Ireland. One reason was that there was discrimination against certain religions and certain groups who were not rich. In the 1790s, groups such as the Presbyterians and the Catholics were denied many of their rights.

The combination of warfare, famine and plague caused a huge mortality among the Irish population. William Petty estimated (in the 1655–56 Down Survey) that the death toll of the wars in Ireland since 1641 was over 618,000 people, or about 40% of the country’s pre-war population.

The wars ended in the defeat of the Confederates. They and their English Royalist allies were defeated during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland by the New Model Army under Oliver Cromwell in 1649–53.

The Irish feared that newly freed slaves from the South would migrate to the North and create further competition in the labor market.

The Irish Rebellion of 1641 came about because of the resentment felt by the Catholic Irish, both Gael and Old English, in regards to the loss of their lands to Protestant settlers from England and Scotland.

Visits by King Richard II in 1394–95 and 1399 achieved nothing. During the first half of the 15th century, Ireland was, in effect, ruled by the three great earls—of Desmond, Ormonde, and Kildare—who combined to dominate the Dublin government.

The 1798 Rebellion was organised by the United Irishmen. This was a key reason for the failure of the rebellion because the government were able to arrest the main leaders of the planned rebellion. Fighting took place in Leinster and in Ulster led by men such as Henry Joy McCracken but this was a failure.

Portadown is a predominantly Protestant town and ancestral home of the Orange Order. Other loyalist organisations were strongly represented in the town during the Troubles such as: the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) and the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF).

Bloody Sunday, or the Bogside Massacre, was a massacre on 30 January 1972 in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland, when British soldiers shot 26 civilians during a protest march against internment without trial….Bloody Sunday (1972)

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The Irish Home Rule movement was a movement that campaigned for self-government (or “home rule”) for Ireland within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It was the dominant political movement of Irish nationalism from 1870 to the end of World War I.

The Irish Republic had only lasted twelve days from its declaration of independence to its collapse. The French troops who surrendered were repatriated to France in exchange for British prisoners of war, but hundreds of the captured Irish rebels were executed.