The Scot in Ulster; Sketch of the History of the Scottish Population of Ulster
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86 THE SCOT IN ULSTER.
upheld — at Enniskillen and at Londonderry. It is not possible to retell the story of the heroic defence they made, for it has been told by Macaulay in a chapter among the noblest in our historical literature, and inferior pen dare not meddle with the theme. 1 It is war on a small scale, but, like the struggle of the Greeks at Thermopylae or at Marathon, it is a fight of heroes. Nor is it necessary to recount the war by which William III. regained Ireland in 1690, save to... regret that the great Dutchman's broad-minded scheme of religious toleration was not carried out, and the disgraceful repressive measures of the next reign ren- dered impossible. One lasting benefit William III.
conferred on Ulster ; he did his best to encourage the linen manufacture, especially by inducing colonies of French Protestant refugees, driven from France by the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, to settle in north-east Ireland, with Lisburn as their centre.
These Huguenots seem to have been men of skill and enterprise, many of them of rank and education.
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86 THE SCOT IN ULSTER.
upheld — at Enniskillen and at Londonderry. It is not possible to retell the story of the heroic defence they made, for it has been told by Macaulay in a chapter among the noblest in our historical literature, and inferior pen dare not meddle with the theme. 1 It is war on a small scale, but, like the struggle of the Greeks at Thermopylae or at Marathon, it is a fight of heroes. Nor is it necessary to recount the war by which William III. regained Ireland in 1690, save to... regret that the great Dutchman's broad-minded scheme of religious toleration was not carried out, and the disgraceful repressive measures of the next reign ren- dered impossible. One lasting benefit William III.
conferred on Ulster ; he did his best to encourage the linen manufacture, especially by inducing colonies of French Protestant refugees, driven from France by the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, to settle in north-east Ireland, with Lisburn as their centre.
These Huguenots seem to have been men of skill and enterprise, many of them of rank and education.
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