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IRELAND – UNITED IRISHMEN UPRISING

22 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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IRELAND – UNITED IRISHMEN UPRISING

Papers of Lieutenant, subsequently Captain, John George Bellingham (1776-1809), comprising letters to him and letters by him to his father, principally relating to his services in Ireland during the revolutionary disturbances in the late 1790s (“...was attacked by a mob who as soon as they saw he soldiers take to their arms fled without a shot being fired...”); together with his Coutts bank-book used by his widow and estate, some fifteen items, dust-staining, weak at folds, a few sections missing, one with later ink-stain, mostly 4to, 1795-1799

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Among the letters by Bellingham to his father, resident at Ardagh, is one written from Killarney on 30 December 1796: "We have this Morning heard that the Enemy have gone off the Coast but there are so many Lies flying that there is no knowing what to believe – certain it is that there were a Lieut & seven Men, taken by the country People up to Dublin – The Country People on all the Road from this to Limerick are contrary to our Expectations, as inimical to them... & treated our Men in the most civil & brotherly manner possible". This is followed by two journal-letters, the first written from Tralee on 4 January 1797: "Tuesday 27th Decr 96 Received Orders to march forthwith for Bantry Bay to oppose the landing of the Enemy & we got positive Orders not to take any Baggage except our Ammunition & what we could carry on our Backs for ourselves – left Limerick about 10 oClock A:M arriv'd in Rathkeale about 5 p:: got some Refreshment for the Soldiers..."; with its continuation, written from Newcastle on 9 January 1797 and ending: "9th Halted in Newcastle expect to march to Limerick tomorrow News this Morning of two French 74s being brought into Cove, not corroborated".

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