Author: Thomas Pakenham
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 9780812930887
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Now available for the first time in trade paperback: the newly revised, definitive account of the most important event in Irish history--the rebellion of 1798. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Author: Thomas Pakenham
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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"The Irish Rebellion of 1798 (Irish: Éirí Amach 1798), also known as the United Irishmen Rebellion (Irish: Éirí Amach na nÉireannach Aontaithe), was an uprising against British rule in Ireland lasting from May to September 1798. The United Irishmen, a republican revolutionary group influenced by the ideas of the American and French revolutions, were the main organising force behind the rebellion."--Wikipedia.
Author: Thomas Packenham
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Author: Thomas Pakenham
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Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Author: John F. Aiken
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385538963
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Author: Lord John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
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Languages : en
Pages : 26
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Author: Samuel Eliot
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Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Author: Jim Powell
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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A dramatic narrative history of liberty from ancient times to the present is told through the inspiring life stories of 65 heroes and heroines from the crisis of the Roman Republic to struggles for women's rights.l
Author: Thomas Pakenham
Publisher: Random House Incorporated
ISBN: 9780679748021
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Now available for the first time in trade paperback: the newly revised, definitive account of the most important event in Irish history--the Rebellion of 1798, in which 30,000 Irish peasants, including defenseless women and children, were cut down or shot by British forces. 8 pages of maps.
Author: Thomas Pakenham
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0349141959
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 497
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This classic account of the great Irish rebellion of 1798 remains the only full-scale history of that tragic event. As relevant today as it was when first published in 1969, THE YEAR OF LIBERTY is now reissued with the addition of a chronology and a glossary of terms. In May 1798 a hundred thousand peasants rose against the British government in Ireland. By the time the revolt had been put down four months later, thirty thousand dead were literally rotting in heaps in a smoking and desolate countryside. Yet it was not a schoolroom story of the heroic oppressed rising against the brutal oppressor, but the result of a complex, tragic, often absurd and sometimes heroic interplay between different groups of people. A tough and arrogant oligarchy of country gentlemen, mainly Protestant and mainly British in origin, lived off a Catholic peasantry. Meanwhile, idealistic merchants and hot-headed young lawyers dreamed and plotted for an Irish Republic on the French model. From a mass of sources including confidential government reports, contemporary newspapers, poems, broadsheets and letters, the author pieces together a story at once complex, tragic, absurd and heroic.
