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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 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 .

  5. 1798 in Ireland - Wikipedia

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    7:00–9:00AM – Battle of Kilcullen: the United Irishmen are repelled by the British army; remaining rebels surrender at Knockaulin Hill on 27 May. The British Army in the Midlands withdraws to Naas. 21 June - Defeat of the Rebels at Vinegar Hill. 25 May Carnew massacre: summary execution of 38 suspected rebels by the British Army in County ...

  6. James Hope (Ireland) - Wikipedia

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    In the Rebellion of 1798 he fought alongside Henry Joy McCracken at the Battle of Antrim. In 1803 he attempted to renew the insurrection against the British Crown in an uprising coordinated by Robert Emmett and the new republican directorate in Dublin. Among United Irishmen, Hope was distinguished by his conviction that "the fundamental ...

  7. Battle of Tory Island - Wikipedia

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    The last action of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, the Battle of Tory Island ended the final attempt by the French Navy to land substantial numbers of soldiers in Ireland during the war. The Society of United Irishmen , led by Wolfe Tone , launched an uprising against British rule in Ireland in May 1798.

  8. Irish issue in British politics - Wikipedia

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    The 1798 Rebellion was a major uprising against British rule in Ireland. The main organising force was the Society of United Irishmen , a republican revolutionary group influenced by the ideas of the American and French revolutions: originally formed by Presbyterian radicals angry at being shut out of power by the Anglican establishment, [ 5 ...

  9. Irish Republic (1798) - Wikipedia

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    The Irish Republic of 1798, more commonly known as the Republic of Connacht, was a short-lived state proclaimed during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 that resulted from the French Revolutionary Wars. A sister republic of the French Republic , it theoretically covered the whole island of Ireland , but its functional control was limited to only very ...

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