Unrest spread throughout the island, reinforced by the more steady United Irishmen movement–which in turn was repressed by the draconian activities of the yeomanry. The crisis in Britain and its former American colonies, with their recently achieved independence, inevitably had echoes in Ireland, while “Patriotic” Irish politicians–a group who “called on the tradition of constitutional independence” 1 –focused on their own position. 2 Maturin, Charles Robert, Melmoth the Wanderer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), 253-257.ġ At the end of the 18 th century, Irish society was subjected to multiple tensions bringing the whole country to the edge of collapse.F., The Oxford History of Ireland (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 141.
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