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Belfast Newsletter June 5, 1798: O'Neill announces 7 June meeting;
June 8, 12, 15 (1798): accounts of Battle of Antrim;
June 18 , 1798: death of Lord. Viscount O'Neill;
26 April, 1799 : court-martial;
18 June, 1799 : court-martial;
2 & 4 Feb. 1800 : letters from Antrim.

Observer, Ballymena: Old Ballymena: a history of the 1798 Rebellion in Mid-Antrim (1857).

O.S. Memoirs of Ireland: Parishes of Co. Antrim X1, Vol.29, Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University Belfast, 1995.

Records of the Monaghan Regiment of Militia

Beckett, J.C: The Making of Modern Ireland, 1603-1923, Faber and Faber, London, 1966.

Bigger, F. J. Northern Leaders of '98: No.1- William Orr; Maunsel, Dublin (1906).

Curtin, N.J: United Irishmen: Popular Politics in Dublin and Belfast, 1791-98, Oxford, 1994.

Curtin, N.J: The transformation of the Society of United Irishmen into a mass-based revolutionary organisation, 1794-6, Irish Historical Studies xxiv, No. 96, pp. 463-491, Nov.1985.

Dickson, C. Revolt in the North, Battles of Antrim and Randalstown, pp.127-37 (1960); Report on the Battle of Antrim by Col. James Durham (Fife Fencibles) to Gen. Nugent, pp.244-45, Dublin and London, 1960.

De Barra: Ulster in '98, pp. 7-10.

Fitzhenry, E.C: Henry Joy McCracken, 164p. bibliog. (Ch.5 The Antrim Campaign, pp. 108-29); Dublin: Phoenix Pub. Co.,1936.

Folley, T: Eyewitness to 1798, Mercier Press, 1996.

Heatley, F. Henry Joy McCracken and his Times; pub. Belfast W Tone Society (1967).

Hewitt, J: Rhyming Weavers and other country poets of Antrim and Down, Blackstaff Press, Belfast, 1974.

Hope, J: Memoir of Henry Joy McCracken.

Jope, E.M: Carrickfergus Castle, H.M.S.O., Belfast, 1957.

Keen, J: Memoir of James Keen, Wesleyan Society Antrim (1798).

Latimer, W.T: Ulster biographies relating principally to the 1798 Rebellion; 112p. (Henry Joy McCracken, James Hope, Henry Munro, etc.); Belfast: Jas. Clealand, Wm. Mullan & Son (1897).

Madden, R.R: Antrim and Down in '98: the lives of Henry Joy McCracken, Jas. Hope etc; 247p. (c. 1920), Glasgow, R. & T. Washbourne.

McFerran, J: Rebellion of 1798: sketches and incidents of the battles of Randalstown and Antrim, 32p. (1898), Belfast: W & G Baird.

McNeill, M: The Life and Times of Mary Ann McCracken 1770-1866, Ch.10: Antrim 1798, Blackstaff Press, Belfast, 1960.

McSkimmon, S: Annals of Ulster (1849) includes Antrim 1798, Belfast, 1850.

Musgrave, R: Rebellions in Ireland (1801).

O'Flanagan, M: When They Followed Henry Joy, Riposte Books, Dublin, 1997.

Pakenham, T: Ulster Will Fight- '98 Rebellion in Antrim.

N.I. Public Records Office: United Irishmen, Education facsimile Nos. 71, 78; '98 Rebellion, Nos. 84, 85.

Orr, J: Poems on Various Subjects, Belfast, 1935.

Purdon, H.S: Battle of Antrim extract from Memoirs of Service of 64th Regiment, 2nd Staffordshire; U.J.A. 2nd series 8 (1902), p.96.

Smith, W.S: Memories of '98 , Belfast, 1895, pp. 8-46.

Smith, W.S: Historical Gleanings in Antrim and Neighbourhood, Belfast, 1888.

Smyth, A.J: The Story of Antrim, Antrim, 1984.

Stewart, A.T.Q: The Summer Soldiers: the 1798 rebellion in Antrim and Down, Blackstaff Press, Belfast, 1995.

Stewart, A.T.Q: A Deeper Silence: the hidden origins of the United Irishmen, Faber & Faber, London, 1993.

Weir, W.D. & Campbell, H: Presbyterianism in Killead, 1630-1980, Belfast, 1993.

Young, R.M: Ulster in '98, episodes and anecdotes (1893), pp.1-13, 68-72; Belfast: Marcus Ward. Includes Antrim, Broughshane, Ballycarry, Slemish.

Unpublished records

in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland: Antrim Presbytery minutes T1053