William Orr (1766 – 14 October 1797) was an Irish revolutionary and member of the United Irishmen who was executed in 1797 in what was widely believed...
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Billy, Willie or William Orr may refer to: William Orr (United Irishman) (1766–1797), member of United Irishmen who was executed William Orr (Australian politician)...
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Castle Hugh de Lacy, 1st Earl of Ulster (c. 1176 – c. 1242) William Orr, United Irishman, was hanged in Carrickfergus on 14 October 1797 shortly before...
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Michael Dwyer (category United Irishmen)
Edward Fitzgerald, (Protestant), The Rev William Jackson (journalist) (Anglican), William Orr (United Irishman) (Protestant), Michael Dwyer (Catholic)...
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suffered as a result of his conduct as a judge at the trial for treason of William Orr, which is widely regarded as a grave miscarriage of justice. Chamberlain...
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result in adjournment. In April 1797, William Orr was charged under the Insurrection Act with administering the United test to two soldiers. The movement's...
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rebellion): "Remember Orr!". Having failed to secure an acquittal for William Orr on the capital charge of administering the United test to soldiers, Sampson...
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leading role in the conviction and execution for treason of the United Irishman William Orr, which is now seen as a major miscarriage of justice. Born at...
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Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh (category History of mental health in the United Kingdom)
petitioned Camden for the life of William Orr.: 112 On a charge of administering the United Irish test to two soldiers, Orr had been named on the same warrant...
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member of the United Irishmen and rebel commander. Isabel Deane Mitchell, medical missionary in China. William Orr, member of the United Irishmen who was...
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in the rebellion of 1798; his refusal in 1797 to reprieve the United Irishman William Orr, convicted of treason on the word of one witness of dubious credit...
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Peter Finnerty (category United Irishmen)
branch of the United Irishmen. The Press's condemnation of the judges who sentenced William Orr to death for allegedly administering a United Irish test...
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professional gentlemen, including the banker and former United Irishman (and state prisoner), William Tennent and his brother Dr. Robert Tennent, in persuading...
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is the heartless centre of Miller's Crossing." Although he was a native Irishman playing a lieutenant to an Irish mobster, the Coens did not originally...
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Henry Joy McCracken (category United Irishmen)
Bi-Centenary Publication. ISBN 0953337308.pp. 36 Hope, James (2001). United Irishman: The Autobiography of James Hope (John Newsinger ed.). London: Merlin...
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the society". In 1803, an original member, the botanist and former United Irishman John Templeton, withdrew rather than associate Dr. MacDonnell who had...
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Charles Rondeau and Leslie Goodwins, among many others, and produced by William T. Orr and Hy Averback. I. Stanford Jolley, Forrest Tucker's former father-in-law...
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James Coigly (redirect from James Quigley (United Irishman))
mission at Dundalk and Armagh’"; he had met with Richard McCormick (United Irishman and Catholic Committee activist) and other leading radicals, and had...
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Timber Press (Portland, OR 1986), ASIN B003XPEPX2, pp 175–189 Orr, Elizabeth L.; Orr, William N.; Baldwin, Ewart M. (December 1992). Geology of Oregon (4th ed...
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Thomas Nast (category William M. Tweed)
The Usual Irish Way of Doing Things, a Nast cartoon depicting a drunken Irishman lighting a powder keg. Published in Harper's Weekly, September 2, 1871...
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Robert Emmet (category 19th-century executions by the United Kingdom)
1794. He was nonetheless reviled for the prosecution and hanging of William Orr in 1797 and, in the wake of 1798, of several Catholic Defenders. Kilwarden's...
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Thomas Russell (rebel) (category United Irishmen)
Russell, United Irishman". 18th-19th Century Social Perspectives. 10 (1). Retrieved 30 October 2020. Madden, Richard Robert (1846). The United Irishmen...
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chemistry: Thomas Graham (1805–1869) The kelvin SI unit of temperature by Irishman William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824–1907) Devising the diagramatic system of...
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poetry. The couple had a daughter while Orr was still married to Thayer; after Orr divorced Thayer, Cummings and Orr married on March 19, 1924. Thayer had...
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Arthur Griffith decried the censorship of Joyce's work in his newspaper United Irishman. Joyce graduated from the Royal University of Ireland in October 1902...
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David Bailie Warden (category Irish emigrants to the United States)
ISBN 9781909556621. Retrieved 30 April 2021. Carter, Edward C. (1989). "A "Wild Irishman" under Every Federalist's Bed: Naturalization in Philadelphia, 1789-1806"...
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for some important judicial hearings including the trial of United Irishman, William Orr, for a breach of the Insurrection Act on 14 October 1797; despite...
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Royal Ulster Rifles (category 1881 establishments in the United Kingdom)
Drum. Naval & Military Press, 2001. p. Foreword. ISBN 9781843421108. "Irishman who was 'Angel of Mons'". The Irish Times. Retrieved 25 September 2018...
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Mary Ann McCracken (section United Irishwoman)
shamrock on the outside and the words, ‘Remember Orr’ on the inside.” William Orr was the celebrated United Irish martyr hanged in Carrickfergus the year...
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Anton Cermak (category 1933 murders in the United States)
won’t vote for either of them. But all three will vote for a turkey—an Irishman." As Cermak climbed the local political ladder, the resentment of the party...
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