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  2. Battle of Antrim - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Antrim was fought on 7 June 1798, in County Antrim, Ireland during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 between British troops and Irish insurgents led by Henry Joy McCracken. The British won the battle, beating off a rebel attack on Antrim town following the arrival of reinforcements but the county governor, John O'Neill, 1st Viscount O ...

  3. Irish Rebellion of 1798 - Wikipedia

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    The rebellion of 1798 is the most violent and tragic event in Irish history between the Jacobite wars and the Great Famine. In the space of a few weeks, 30,000 – peasants armed with pikes and pitchforks, defenceless women and children – were cut down, shot, or blown like chaff as they charged up to the mouth of the canon.

  4. Battle of Vinegar Hill - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Vinegar Hill (Irish: Cath Chnoc Fhíodh na gCaor) was a military engagement during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 on 21 June 1798 between a force of approximately 13,000 government troops under the command of Gerard Lake and 16,000 United Irishmen rebels led by Anthony Perry.

  5. Battle of Kilcullen - Wikipedia

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    The outbreak of the rebellion on the night of 23/24 May 1798 led to failed assaults on Ballymore-Eustace, Naas, and Prosperous.As news of the rising spread throughout Kildare, Kilcullen rebels began to mobilise in the ancient hill-top churchyard in the town-land now known as Old Kilcullen.

  6. Battle of the Big Cross - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of the Big Cross was a military engagement of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 between a force of United Irishmen rebels and a column of government troops. It was fought on 19 June 1798 on a spot on the Shannonvale-Ballinascarty road known locally as the "Big Cross", approximately four miles east of Clonakilty in West Cork.

  7. 1798 in Ireland - Wikipedia

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    Great Britain's Irish militia arrest the leadership of the Society of United Irishmen marking the beginning of the Irish Rebellion of 1798. [1] A number are arrested at the house of Oliver Bond on 12 March. Lord Castlereagh is appointed Acting Chief Secretary for Ireland. 30 March – martial law is proclaimed in Ireland.

  8. Battle of Tara Hill - Wikipedia

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    Following the outbreak of the rebellion signaled in Meath by the prearranged signal of the seizing of a mail coach near Turvey hill, road blocks were posted on the Navan road United Irishmen and rebels in Meath began to assemble at the hill of Tara. Tara was chosen as it provided strategic control of road access to the capital Dublin and ...

  9. National 1798 Rebellion Centre - Wikipedia

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    The exhibitions cover a number of themes: Pre-Revolutionary Europe, the spread of revolution, the Irish context, the United Irishmen, the chain of battles nationally in May and June 1798, the French political and military connection, Vinegar Hill, and the aftermath of the rebellion. [1] The exhibitions include dioramas and interactive displays. [2]

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