Author: Ireland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The History of the Irish Rebellion in the Year 1798. ... Second Edition
Author: Ireland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Armies of the Irish Rebellion 1798
Author: Stuart Reid
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1849089396
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
In 1798, the Irish rose up against the corrupt English government run out of Dublin. Joined by both Protestants and Catholics, the rebellion quickly spread across the country. Although the Irish peasantry were armed mostly with pikes, they were able to overwhelm a number of small, isolated British outposts. However, even with the half-hearted assistance of the French, the Irish could not compete with the organized ranks of the British Army when under competent leadership. In a brutal turning of the tide, the Redcoats plowed through the rebels. In just three months, between 15,000 and 30,000 people died, most of them Irish. This book tells the story of this harsh, but fascinating, period of Irish history and covers the organization and uniforms of the forces involved.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1849089396
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
In 1798, the Irish rose up against the corrupt English government run out of Dublin. Joined by both Protestants and Catholics, the rebellion quickly spread across the country. Although the Irish peasantry were armed mostly with pikes, they were able to overwhelm a number of small, isolated British outposts. However, even with the half-hearted assistance of the French, the Irish could not compete with the organized ranks of the British Army when under competent leadership. In a brutal turning of the tide, the Redcoats plowed through the rebels. In just three months, between 15,000 and 30,000 people died, most of them Irish. This book tells the story of this harsh, but fascinating, period of Irish history and covers the organization and uniforms of the forces involved.
The Orangeman, Second Edition
Author: Don Akenson
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228013690
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
From the end of the Napoleonic Wars to Confederation, central Canada was awash with migrants from the British Isles and their cultural values. The raw prejudice that they brought with them – against the French, the Catholics, and even Yanks and Europeans – bound together the eventual political majority in Ontario. The Orangeman uses the life of Ogle Gowan, an Irish Protestant upstart from County Wexford who turned central Canada Orange, to explore these forces. Gowan was ambitious, malicious, and mendacious, but by the time of Confederation the Orange Order was the largest alliance of men in the country – the foundation of the coalition of conservative Protestants that sculpted Canadian politics in the century that followed. Don Akenson uses his skills as a historian and a novelist in respecting the historical record. The Orangeman is a lively and entertaining fictional biography, and in Akenson’s telling Gowan crosses swords with William Lyon Mackenzie and goes pub-crawling with the young John A. Macdonald. One never knows everything about a historical person or event; sometimes the right thing to do is to speculate sensibly and, if possible, have a little fun along the way. Akenson shows us Canadian loyalism, constitutionalism, and deference to state authority on one side of the coin, and on the flip side, the successful attempt by one group of Canadians to do down the other. This is real history, real life: as yesterday, so today.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228013690
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
From the end of the Napoleonic Wars to Confederation, central Canada was awash with migrants from the British Isles and their cultural values. The raw prejudice that they brought with them – against the French, the Catholics, and even Yanks and Europeans – bound together the eventual political majority in Ontario. The Orangeman uses the life of Ogle Gowan, an Irish Protestant upstart from County Wexford who turned central Canada Orange, to explore these forces. Gowan was ambitious, malicious, and mendacious, but by the time of Confederation the Orange Order was the largest alliance of men in the country – the foundation of the coalition of conservative Protestants that sculpted Canadian politics in the century that followed. Don Akenson uses his skills as a historian and a novelist in respecting the historical record. The Orangeman is a lively and entertaining fictional biography, and in Akenson’s telling Gowan crosses swords with William Lyon Mackenzie and goes pub-crawling with the young John A. Macdonald. One never knows everything about a historical person or event; sometimes the right thing to do is to speculate sensibly and, if possible, have a little fun along the way. Akenson shows us Canadian loyalism, constitutionalism, and deference to state authority on one side of the coin, and on the flip side, the successful attempt by one group of Canadians to do down the other. This is real history, real life: as yesterday, so today.
Rebellion!
Author: Daniel Gahan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The Shadow of a Year
Author: John Gibney
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299289532
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
In October 1641 a rebellion broke out in Ireland. Dispossessed Irish Catholics rose up against British Protestant settlers whom they held responsible for their plight. This uprising, the first significant sectarian rebellion in Irish history, gave rise to a decade of war that would culminate in the brutal re-conquest of Ireland by Oliver Cromwell. It also set in motion one of the most enduring and acrimonious debates in Irish history. Was the 1641 rebellion a justified response to dispossession and repression? Or was it an unprovoked attempt at sectarian genocide? John Gibney comprehensively examines three centuries of this debate. The struggle to establish and interpret the facts of the past was also a struggle over the present: if Protestants had been slaughtered by vicious Catholics, this provided an ideal justification for maintaining Protestant privilege. If, on the other hand, Protestant propaganda had inflated a few deaths into a vast and brutal “massacre,” this justification was groundless. Gibney shows how politicians, historians, and polemicists have represented (and misrepresented) 1641 over the centuries, making a sectarian understanding of Irish history the dominant paradigm in the consciousness of the Irish Protestant and Catholic communities alike.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299289532
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
In October 1641 a rebellion broke out in Ireland. Dispossessed Irish Catholics rose up against British Protestant settlers whom they held responsible for their plight. This uprising, the first significant sectarian rebellion in Irish history, gave rise to a decade of war that would culminate in the brutal re-conquest of Ireland by Oliver Cromwell. It also set in motion one of the most enduring and acrimonious debates in Irish history. Was the 1641 rebellion a justified response to dispossession and repression? Or was it an unprovoked attempt at sectarian genocide? John Gibney comprehensively examines three centuries of this debate. The struggle to establish and interpret the facts of the past was also a struggle over the present: if Protestants had been slaughtered by vicious Catholics, this provided an ideal justification for maintaining Protestant privilege. If, on the other hand, Protestant propaganda had inflated a few deaths into a vast and brutal “massacre,” this justification was groundless. Gibney shows how politicians, historians, and polemicists have represented (and misrepresented) 1641 over the centuries, making a sectarian understanding of Irish history the dominant paradigm in the consciousness of the Irish Protestant and Catholic communities alike.
The Irish Rebellion
Author: Sir John Temple
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The People's Rising
Author: Daniel Gahan
Publisher: Gill & MacMillan
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The People's Rising is already established as the definitive account of Wexford in 1798. The story of this tragic and heroic episode in Irish history, in which as many as 30,000 people may have died, is told with authority, passion and attention to detail.
Publisher: Gill & MacMillan
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The People's Rising is already established as the definitive account of Wexford in 1798. The story of this tragic and heroic episode in Irish history, in which as many as 30,000 people may have died, is told with authority, passion and attention to detail.
Catalogue of an extensive and valuable collection of books relating to Ireland formed by Stephen J. Richarson [i.e. Richardson] of New York City
Author:
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
Author: Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Index of archaeological papers published in 1891, under the direction of the Congress of Archaeological Societies in union with the Society of Antiquaries.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Index of archaeological papers published in 1891, under the direction of the Congress of Archaeological Societies in union with the Society of Antiquaries.
Echoes of the Rebellion
Author: Radvan Markus
Publisher: Reimagining Ireland
ISBN: 9783034318327
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The 1798 Rebellion was a watershed event in Irish history and continues to provoke debate up to the present day. This book provides a comprehensive survey of historical novels and plays published on the topic throughout the twentieth century, comparing them with relevant historiography.
Publisher: Reimagining Ireland
ISBN: 9783034318327
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The 1798 Rebellion was a watershed event in Irish history and continues to provoke debate up to the present day. This book provides a comprehensive survey of historical novels and plays published on the topic throughout the twentieth century, comparing them with relevant historiography.