WY1008/1

Report on the disturbances in Ireland.

Not dated, circa 1820

From: 1815 To: 1825

There is no proof that it [the disturbances] deserves the name of Radical or Popish insurrection. The public addresses of the Radicals have met with no acceptance or reply. There is no proof of a connection between the Radicals and the Ribbonmen. No reason to suppose the object was to overthrow the Established Church; the Ribbonmen attacked indiscriminately Catholics and Protestants. The trials at the assizes of Roscommon and Galway found no traces of a confederacy exclusively Catholic. There is no person who seriously believes that the Galway disturbances had any definite object tending to a change of religion. Theses disturbances therefore may be classified with those which have formerly taken place in Ireland. Includes extracts from a paper laid before Parliament in June 1816 titled 'A Statement of the Nature and Extent of the Disturbances which have Recently Prevailed in Ireland.' Mention of Kells and his wife, shot at the door of their own home on suspicion of being informers, the murder of Mr Barker in Tipperary and the attempted assassination of Mr Burke.

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Kells,
Barker (d),
Burke

legal papers, Ireland, Great Britain, Established Church, general Roman Catholic, Assizes, County Galway, County Roscommon