An old engraving of Dragoons and Highlanders scattering rioters in Hannahstown, Belfast, Ireland in 1872. It is from a Victorian history book of Nationalists had been demonstrating and campaigning for the release of Nationalist prisoners. A week of vicious rioting and sectarian conflict in Belfast was referred to in contemporary press accounts in August 1872 as the ‘Seven Day Civil War’. At the end of the riots on 24th August, military and police numbered 4,400 men under arms.
An old engraving of Dragoons and Highlanders scattering rioters in Hannahstown, Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1872. It is from a Victorian history book of Nationalists had been demonstrating and campaigning for the release of Nationalist prisoners. A week of vicious rioting and sectarian conflict in Belfast was referred to in contemporary press accounts in August 1872 as the ‘Seven Day Civil War’. At the end of the riots on 24th August, military and police numbered 4,400 men under arms. Sectarian riots in Belfast can be traced back as far as 1835. The Orange Order, fiercely opposed to Catholicism and Irish nationalism in Belfast and Ulster and throughout Ireland, especially in the second half of the 19th century. Orangeism was also supported by 19th century Protestant firebrand preachers, most notably Dr Henry Cooke and Reverend ‘Roaring’ Hugh Hanna of St Enoch’s Presbyterian Church, Carlisle Circus, north Belfast. Notoriously anti-Catholic they were fanatical believers and preachers of the Pope as the ‘anti-Christ’.
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Location: Hannahstown, Belfast, N Ireland
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