Armagh disturbances information

The Armagh disturbances was a period of intense sectarian fighting in the 1780s and 1790s between the Ulster Protestant Peep o' Day Boys and the Roman...

rick-burners" would claim in 1798 that they were indebted to the Armagh disturbances as the Orangemen had scattered politicised Catholics throughout the...

violence with Catholics, notably during the 1641 rebellion and the Armagh disturbances. Along with the rest of Ireland, Ulster became part of the United...

Wars, the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, the Williamite War, the Armagh disturbances, Irish Rebellion of 1798, the Irish revolutionary period, and the...

Armagh Defenders. United Irishmen were able to offer practical assistance: legal counsel, aid and refuge. Catholic victims of the Armagh disturbances...

escalated at the end of the century, especially during the County Armagh disturbances, where the Protestant Peep o' Day Boys fought the Catholic Defenders...

have been quite rare during most of the 18th century. Not until the Armagh disturbances in the 1780s did sectarian divisions come back to the fore. Many...

who had risen to prominence among the United Irishmen during the Armagh Disturbances, arrived from Manchester. There, as a test for "United Englishmen"...

parallel to the "uniting" efforts of Father James Coigly, during the Armagh Disturbances McCracken and other emissaries from Belfast travelled extensively...

o' Day Boys that took place on 21 September 1795 near Loughgall, County Armagh, Ireland. The Peep o' Day Boys were the victors, killing some 6 Defenders...

served the Society of United Irishmen as a mediator in the sectarian Armagh Disturbances and as an envoy both to the government of the French Republic and...

Their youngest daughter, Jane, was a watercolour artist. In the Armagh disturbances, Allott in 1789 forwarded a prospectus of the Defenders to the 1st...

roads. The sport originated in Ireland and is mainly played in counties Armagh and Cork. Road bowling in Ireland is governed by the voluntary Irish Road...

in Kingsmill, South Armagh after having been ordered off their bus by an armed republican gang, which called itself the South Armagh Republican Action Force...

Armagh and Newry. In Dungannon and Armagh, the B-Specials again opened fire on rioters. They fired twenty-four rounds on Cathedral Road in Armagh, killing...

various locations at short notice: In January 1972 they moved to County Armagh, to British Honduras in August 1972, to West Belfast in October 1973, to...

to Derry. Nationalists held protests at RUC stations in Belfast, Newry, Armagh, Dungannon, Coalisland and Dungiven. Some of these became violent. The worst...

and evictions. The protests then spread into the neighbouring counties of Armagh, Down, and Londonderry, before being put down by the army. The Hearts of...

Buchanan, who were ambushed by the Provisional IRA South Armagh Brigade outside Jonesborough, County Armagh, on 20 March 1989. On 4 December 2013, in a report...

fire and used to block roads in Belfast and other districts like Newry, Armagh and Dungannon. The RUC and the British Army had to withdraw entirely from...

8 March 1822 at Dartry, Blackwatertown near Armagh, son of William Olpherts of Dartry House, County Armagh. He was educated at the Royal School Dungannon...

Defence Association (DCDA), with the intention of preparing for future disturbances. The members of the DCDA were initially Republican Club (and possibly...