Publisher's Synopsis
William Drennan played an active part in the Irish Volunteer movement in the 1780s; in the United Irish movement in the 1790s; and in the campaign of the Protestant interest in Ireland against the passing of the Act of Union during the years after the suppression of the 1798 Rebellion.;This volume in a set of three contains his pamphlet, the "Letters of Orellana" (1784), published in 1794 for the purpose of re-invigorating the reform movement of the Volunteers, which was then at a low ebb. Also included in the 200 items in this section are Drennan's letters to William Bruce, in which the United Irish movement is foreshadowed; and a selection of letters exchanged between Drennan, his sister Martha, and her husband, Sam M'Tier. A number of poems written by Drennan are also featured.
