Constitution of 1782
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The Constitution of 1782 refers to government of the Kingdom of Ireland following concessions to its legislative and judicial independence by the British Crown and Parliament. Constrained by the revol
The Irish House of Commons: Henry Grattan urging the Claims of Irish Right, 8 June 1780 (by Francis Wheatley, 1780)
The Lisburn and Lambeg Volunteers firing a feu de joie in honour of the Dungannon Convention, 1782.
Waddell Cunningham
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Captain Waddell Cunningham was an Irish trans-Atlantic trader, Dominican slave-holder and merchant, prominent in the commercial and civic life of Georgian-era Belfast. In a town much agitated by the A
Portrait by Robert Home, 1784
Mausoleum of Waddell Cunningham, Kbockbreda Cemetery, Belfast