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104: 30: 197:, a widower and chandler from Belfast, in 1773. In 1795 he died intestate leaving McTier and her stepdaughter Margaret McTier (1762–1845) in poverty. She and Margaret continued to live together, supported in small part by a small annuity from a cousin of McTier, and by taking in an orphaned girl as a paying guest. Despite her own financial straights, she sought to support her brother 306:
however to be termed a neutral". From her earlier (and freer) correspondence it is clear that McTier was not neutral and that she had been active within a United-Irish circle. "This evening we had a meeting of our select society", she wrote to her brother in December 1792, "where we were unanimously of the opinion that the Catholic Committee should ask nothing less than total
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in Belfast's politically-divided social circles, she would not discuss politics when attending local coteries, assemblies and card parties. Nonetheless, rumours about her correspondence circulated. A local gossip described her as a "violent republican" who had "put up or recruited a hundred men to the United Irish cause".
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hinterland. As early as 1802 she bemoaned the fact that the "R Catholics here now a large though poor and unknown body." On hearing that they had staged a "singing procession" in the street she confessed to her brother: "I begin to fear these people, and think like the Jews they will regain their native land."
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In 1793 McTier was invited to become the secretary of the new Humane Female Society. The Society helped establish and sustain Belfast's Lying-in (maternity) Hospital, and she would remain active with the Society for many years. At the outset there had been some resistance to admitting unmarried women
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Martha McTier was "aware of the difficulties involved in asserting a political identity independent of her brother or her husband": "women connected with men whose side is known", she commented, "ought to be very cautious, as they are supposed to be only echoes"." In an attempt to avoid controversy
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McTier's forty-year correspondence with her brother William begins in 1776 when he was studying medicine in Edinburgh and continued as he moved, with his obstetrics practice, from Belfast to Newry and Dublin. Frequently "the brighter wit ... and clearer eye", she was both his personal and political
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While alerted, following her brother's arrest in 1793, that her letters were being opened and read by the authorities, McTier refused to be cowed. She assured Drennan that "in these times I never will be gagged". Yet she often advised caution, seeming to welcome her brother's growing distance from
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noted that McTier "plumped for real education and knowledge of public affairs". In 1795 she wrote to her brother: "So much have I gained by newspapers, and so ardently have I seen them sought for and enjoyed by the lower orders, that I intend to institute for their good a gratis newsroom with fire
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signed "The Bucks" sarcastically declaimed: "We love girls educated above their rank, and their heads filled with ideas beyond their means. We by experience, know the consequence - we shall always have fresh supplies from your excellent seminary". In spite of the opposition, McTier and Skeffington
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in Paris, Drennan suggested that when the forces of reaction were at the gates it was "no time to weigh nice points of morality"- McTier, however, confessed herself "turned, quite turned, against the French," and feared that the Revolution was "all farther than ever from coming to good". She grew
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Yet, her correspondence reveals that she shared the concern that rapidly was to reconcile many northern Presbyterians to the Union. As a Belfast Protestant, McTier was conscious of a loss of the "easy sense of security" in numbers as the town's industrial growth drew in Catholics from the rural
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For the postmaster's benefit she wrote a letter to her brother denying any knowledge of or involvement in the United Irishwomen and reflected that "it is strange that an obscure name, and female, could be noticed by strangers", though, she added, "I flatter myself I am not insignificant enough
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In May the Belfast Postmaster had alerted the secretary to the Irish Post Office to her correspondence with Jane Greg, describing Greg as "very active" at "the head of the Female Societies" in Belfast. A letter, purportedly from the secretary of the United Irishwomen, was published in the
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McTier had clear democratic sympathies. In 1795 she wrote approvingly to her brother of Belfast's Jacobin Club (which included United Irishmen), describing it as composed of "persons and rank long kept down now come forward with a degree of information that might shame their betters".
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and candles, a scheme which you might laugh at, but if followed in the country towns might have a wonderful effect". This was in essence, Wood suggests, a doctrine "much more revolutionary than the gospel preached by the majority of the professed revolutionists of the period". (
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and prostitutes. McTier reported to her brother that despite "the appearance of unanimity", she saw a "party forming under the pretext of keeping out unmarried women", which she believed was attempting to raise opposition against "those who are now deemed democrats".
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and his new family in Dublin where his medical practice suffered as a result of his political notoriety. She persuaded their cousin, Martha Young, to bequeath him her fortune, and this enabled him in 1806 to retire from practice and return to Belfast.
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In April 1795 McTier and Lady Harriet Skeffington proposed a more ambitious scheme to a town meeting, a residential school for girls with food and clothing provided. The proposal promoted a debate in the press. A letter to the
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When in the same year McTier established a small school in her home for poor girls she began to read more of the literature on women's education by female writers. In addition to Wollstonecraft, she drew inspiration from
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McTier shared her husband's and her brother's radical commitment to a national and representative government for Ireland. She read, sometimes in advance of her brother, most of the radical writers of her time, including
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The collected correspondence of McTier and her brother spanned 40 years and 1,500 letters. They are frequently cited as a source for the period of Irish politics and history spanning
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In 1798, like her brother in Dublin, in Belfast McTier was in a heavily garrisoned town in which there was little prospect of a rebel demonstration. Neither was implicated in the
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confidante. When her husband became president of the United Irishmen in Belfast, McTier was drawn into the group's activities. The leading figures of the movement, including
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in October 1796. It blamed the violence of the American and French revolutions on English aggression. Greg was the likely author, but Martha felt herself under suspicion.
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who was much admired by Hamilton. Manson’s school in Donegall Street had been attended by a number of McTier’s friends and acquaintances including
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that the commitment in Drennan's United Irish test to an "impartial representation" of the nation implied, not only that Catholics, but also "
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the inner counsels of the United Irishmen. But this may not, alone, have been a concern for her brother's safety. Her enthusiasm for
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Curtin, Nancy (1985). "The Transformation of the Society of United Irishmen into a mass-based revolutionary organisation, 1794-6".
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in Belfast. There is no record of her childhood or education, but she appears to have been greatly influenced by her father whose
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wary of the "bloody cost" of subverting "all religion and order" for "an experiment of what can only be a doubtful improvement".
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In June 1797 her brother warned her of a rumour circulating in Dublin that she was writing for the United Irish newspaper, the
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Belfast Politics: or, A collection of the debates, resolutions, and other proceedings of that town in the years 1792, and 1793
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The Reverend William Bruce, successor to her father's pulpit at Belfast's First Presbyterian Church, protested in the Belfast
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Eighteenth-Century Ireland (New Gill History of Ireland 4): The Isle of Slaves – The Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland
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Martha McTier to William Drennan (undated) 1797 and Martha McTier to William Drennan, (undated) 1798, in Agnew,
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Having, as she explained, so long "clung to free and rising Ireland", McTier opposed as "degrading"
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At a time when philanthropic women "were attempting to tame the masses with soothing moral tracts",
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Martha McTier to Drennan, . Public Records Office Northern Ireland, Drennan Letters T.765/548
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were to introduce just such a scheme, public reading rooms, with great effect in the 1840s).
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See Theobald Wolfe Tone’s Journal, 25 October 1791 in Thomas Bartlett (Ed.) (1998 reprint)
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What Can Women Give But Tears': Gender, Politics and Irish National Identity in the 1790s
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What Can Women Give But Tears': Gender, Politics and Irish National Identity in the 1790s
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In Belfast McTier continued her charitable and school commitments, sometimes alongside
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documents the political radicalism and tumult of late eighteenth-century Ireland.
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theology bore the imprint of his mentor, the moral philosopher (and father of the
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Agnew, Jean (2009). "McTier, Martha". In McGuire, James; Quinn, James (eds.).
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and full right of citizenship, this to be intimated by this post to Tone ."
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prevailed. Two years later the Union School was supporting twenty-one girls.
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Martha McTier to William Drennan, 17 January 1795, in Jean Agnew (ed. ),
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Politics and Genre in the Works of Elizabeth Hamilton, 1756–1816
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The Cottagers of Glenburnie: A Tale for the Farmer's Ingle-nook
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With executions proceeding, McTier successfully petitioned
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William Drennan to Martha McTier, 10 June 1797, in Agnew,
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Martha McTier was born Martha Drennan in 1742 or 1743 in
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which in 1801 incorporated Ireland under the British
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The Life and Times of Mary Ann McCracken, 1770–1866
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 461: 318: 158:. She was to read widely in philosophy ( 129: 1275: 1007: 927: 918: 811: 623: 561: 519: 517: 515: 513: 511: 347:Reflections on the Revolution in France 1453: 1416: 1229: 1207:National Archives of Ireland, Dublin, 784: 675: 534: 434:. Crombie later emigrated to America. 1316: 1248: 1242: 774:. Stirling, Kenney. pp. 295–296. 701:McTier to Drennan, 28 December 1794, 523: 503:The Drennan-McTier Letters, 1776-1820 1135:. New York: Routledge. p. 222. 567: 508: 255: 1251:"Thomas Davis and the Irish nation" 778: 540: 13: 1181:Vindication of the rights of Women 1166:A Vindication of the Rights of Men 805: 721:. 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Index


Belfast
Kingdom of Ireland
Belfast
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Society of United Irishmen
William Drennan
United Irishmen
Belfast
Thomas Drennan
Presbyterian Church
New Light
Scottish Enlightenment
Francis Hutcheson
Rousseau
de Volney
Montesquieu
Hume
Fielding
Edgeworth
Elizabeth Hamilton
Marie-Medeleine de La Fayette
Samuel McTier
William Drennan
Anna Laetitia Barbauld
Ann Radcliffe
Elizabeth Hamilton
David Manson
Mary Ann McCracken

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