Contents
Preface
Introduction to Part II
Declaration of the Catholic Society of Dublin ([1791])
Strictures on the Declaration of the Society Instituted for the Purpose of Promoting Unanimity amongst Irishmen, and Removing Religious Prejudices (1791)
General Committee of Roman Catholics (1792)
A Report of the Debate … for the Purpose of Considering the Propriety of Adopting the Declaration of the General Committee of the Roman Catholics of Ireland (1792)
A Candid Enquiry, Whether the Roman Catholics of Ireland, Ought or Ought Not to be Admitted to the Rights of Subjects (1792)
The Address of the Association of the Friends of the Constitution, Liberty and Peace, in Ireland ([1793])
The Petition of the Catholics of Ireland, to the King’s Most Excellent Majesty (1793)
Defence of the Sub-Committee of the Catholics of Ireland (1793)
An Irishman’s Letter to the People called Defenders ([c. 1793])
Proceedings of the Society of United Irishmen of Dublin ([1793])
An Act for the Relief of His Majesty’s Popish, or Roman Catholic Subjects of Ireland (1793), in The Statutes at Large [Ireland]
An Act to Prevent the Election or Appointment of Unlawful Assemblies (1793), in The Statutes at Large [Ireland]
The Address of the Poor People of Munster, to their Fellows in Ireland, with their Bill of Grievances Annexed ([c. 1794])
Address fom the Society of United Irishmen of Dublin, to the People of Ireland (1794)
Society of United Irishmen of Dublin (1794), excerpts
[William Bruce and Henry Joy (eds)], Belfast Politics (1794), excerpts
Henry Grattan’s Proposal for a Bill for the Relief of His Majesty’s Roman Catholic Subjects (4 May 1795), in The Speeches of the Right Honourable Henry Grattan (1822), excerpt
Speech of Arthur O’Connor Esq. in the House of Commons of Ireland, Monday, May 4th, 1795, on the Catholic Bill (1795)
A Fair Statement, of the Administration of Earl Fitzwilliam (1795)
An Irishman’s Second Letter to the People called Defenders ([1795])
An Act More Efectually to Suppress Insurrections (1796), in The Statutes at Large [Ireland]
An Act to Prevent and Punish Tumultuous Risings (1976), in The Statutes at Large [Ireland]
Thomas Russell, A Letter to the People of Ireland, on the Present Situation of the Country (1796)
Arthur O’Connor, A Letter to the Electors of Antrim (1797)
G. Lake, Proclamation to the People of the Province of Ulster (1797)
The Appeal of the People of Ulster to their Countrymen, and to the Empire at Large (1797)
Address of the Inhabitants of the County of Armagh, to such of their Roman Catholic Brethren as have been Driven fom their Country by the Late Persecution ([c. 1797])
An Act to Explain an Act More Efectually to Suppress Insurrections, and Prevent the Disturbance of the Public Peace (1797), in The Statutes at Large [Ireland]
‘The Declarations, Resolutions and Constitution of the United Irishmen’, Journals of the House of Commons of the Kingdom of Ireland (1797)
Editorial Notes