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 Pakenham
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Author: Thomas Packenham
Publisher:
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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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: Cathal Póirtéir
Publisher: Mercier Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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To mark the 200th anniversary of the 1798 Rebellion, RTE Radio 1 commissioned 13 historians to provide their insights into the rising. These lectures set Ireland in the context of Revolutionary Europe and trace the development of the United Irishman's political cultural philosophy.
Author: Thomas Pakenham
Publisher: Abacus
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.
Author: Helen Litton
Publisher: The O'Brien Press Ltd
ISBN: 1788490347
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 153
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The English invasions of Ireland were never accepted. Each generation of Irish rebels resisted and, in doing so, faced certain death. They became martyrs and left behind speeches and watchwords to spark the flames of nationalism and idealism. Using eyewitness accounts, speeches and illustrative material, Helen Litton describes these most important Irish rebellions, from the United Irishmen of 1798 to the IRA of the War of Independence. The Irish rebellions through the years of Irish history beginning with the 1798 rebellion told through illustration and word. These engaging illustrations will bring to life some of the most pivotal events in Irish history. This illustrated history book will examine the rebellions of Ireland with a focus on the principal figures involved. Rebellions begun by Irish people who were not afraid to take on a powerful Establishment and claim their right to self-determination. This book covers six major rebellions in Irish History: The Rebellion of 1798 The Rebellion of 1803 The Rebellion of 1848 The Fenian Campaigns Easter Rising, 1916 The War of Independence
Author: William Hamilton Maxwell
Publisher:
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 550
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Author: Stuart Reid
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1849089396
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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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.
Author: James Gordon
Publisher: London : Printed for T. Hurst
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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