| HUME, David. `To Right Some Things That We Thought Wrong...' The Spirit of 1798 and Presbyterian Radicalism in Ulster. Lurgan: The Ulster Society, 1998. 84pp. Paperback.[`On a summer day in the June of 1798, Presbyterian farmers and labourers from Broadisland, County Antrim, shouldered their pikes and marched on Antrim Town with other corps of the United Army of Ulster, under Henry Joy McCracken's command. Among them was a young weaver poet, James Orr, and also involved was a 16 year old youth called Willie Nelson. Orr would be forced to flee to America for his part in the Rising, or `Turn Oot' as the Scots Presbyterians of Antrim called it. Willie Nelson was not so lucky, being hanged outside his mother's door by the authorites. The role of these men and thousands of other Presbyterians like them in the 1798 Rebellion prompted local historian and journalist David Hume to seek to understand the complex issues of the Presbyterian Revolt in Antrim and Down in 1798...']. A very good copy. IRISH
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