Selected and Introduced by Brendan Clifford. Thomas Russell And Belfast by Brendan Clifford. Includes extracts from Russell's Journal, and from the Lion Of Old England satire, which he contributed to the United Irish paper, The Northern Star. In The French Revolution by Brendan Clifford. A historical description of the Revolution of 1789, of its political and philosophical antecedents since the time of Louis XIV, and of its progress to July 1794.
Extensive use is made of Northern Star translations of the French debates of the time.
The full Northern Star account of the 1792 Belfast celebration of Bastille Day is included. A selection of letters from the Downshire Papers, 1793-1798. Co. Down, was the most substantial aristocrat in the North. He conducted a kind of state within the state. These letters are reports to him from his agents about the progress of the United Irish movement in its heartland, and about the measures taken to suppress it.