... Lydon, The Making of Ireland, p James Kelly, Henry Flood: Patriots and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Ireland (Dublin, ), p Lydon, The Making of Ireland, p Ibid., ... concomitant risks The Belfast News-Letter, one of the oldest and most strongly based newspapers in Ireland, lost one-fifth of its subscribers by a single miscalculation of the Ulster mood, when it ... Post in / brought it, and the Magee family who owned it, to heel The most popular paper in Ireland, although never a governmental paper as such, became ‘Castle Catholic’. Prosecution was,...