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The Irish rebellion of 1803 was an attempt by Irish republicans to seize the seat of the British government in Ireland, Dublin Castle, and trigger a nationwide insurrection. Renewing the struggle of 1798 , they were organised under a reconstituted United Irish directorate.
The Fenian raids were a series of incursions carried out by the Fenian Brotherhood, an Irish republican organization based in the United States, on military fortifications, customs posts and other targets in Canada (then part of British North America) in 1866, and again from 1870 to 1871.
Irish Rebellion of 1798; Acts of Union 1800; Irish rebellion of 1803; Young Ireland rebellion; Fenian Rising; Fenian raids; Fenian dynamite campaign; Easter Rising; 1918 general election; Irish revolutionary period; Irish War of Independence; Irish Civil War; 1932 general election; S-Plan; Border Campaign; The Troubles; Arms Crisis; 1981 Irish ...
The Kilkenny Militia had arrived at Castlebar the day before, and with the cadre of the 6th Foot, some of the 6th Dragoon Guards, and detachments from some yeomanry and fencible regiments, Hutchinson had about 1700 men, backed by four 6-pounders and a howitzer of the Royal Irish Artillery (RIA). However, the force drawn from more than 10 units ...
3. 'In all cases of rebellion or insurrection'. The regiment was reformed as the Wicklow Rifles with four companies in 1855. The appointment of colonel in the militia lapsed after the 1852 reforms, and Sir Ralph Howard became Honorary Colonel, with Edward Bayly, a former captain in the 34th Foot, as Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant. [6] [7] [8 ...
6 January – Anna Maria Hall, novelist (died 1881). 16 January – Robert Bell, journalist and writer (died 1867). 26 February – John Baptist Purcell, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cincinnati (died 1883 in the United States). 17 March – James Patrick Mahon, Irish nationalist politician and international mercenary (died 1891).
Irish Rebellion of 1641: Phelim Ó Neill, Rory Ó Moore, Conor Maguire, Hugh Óg MacMahon 1642–52 Kingdom of Ireland Irish Confederate Wars: Irish Catholic Confederation: 1689–91 Kingdom of Ireland Williamite War: Jacobites under James II of England: 1798 Kingdom of Ireland Irish Rebellion of 1798: Society of United Irishmen: 1799–1803
In carrying forward the tradition of physical-force republicanism from the debacle of the Young Irelander "Famine Rebellion" in 1848, the Irish Republican Brotherhood (the Fenians) also carried forward admiration for Emmet. On the $20 bonds they issued in 1866 in the United States in the name of the Irish Republic, his profile appears opposite ...