The "Steel Boys" or "Hearts of Steel" storming the barracks at Belfast, Ireland in 1770 in an attempt to rescue a prisoner. The "Hearts of Steel" was an exclusively Protestant movement originating in County Antrim, Ireland due to grievances about the sharp rise of rent and evictions. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.

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