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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.
The Gibbet Rath executions / ˈ dʒ ɪ b ə t r æ θ /, sometimes called the Gibbet Rath massacre, refers to the execution of several hundred surrendering rebels by government forces during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 at the Curragh of Kildare on 29 May 1798.
The Wexford Rebellion refers to the events of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 in County Wexford.From 27 May until 21 June 1798, Society of United Irishmen rebels revolted against British rule in the county, engaging in multiple confrontations with Crown forces.
The Scullabogue massacre was a mass murder of civilians committed in Scullabogue, near Newbawn, County Wexford, Ireland on 5 June 1798, during the 1798 rebellion.A guarding party of rebels massacred up to 200 [1] noncombatant men, women and children, most of whom were Protestant (there were also about 20 Catholics), who were held prisoner in a barn which was then set alight.
Henry Joy McCracken (31 August 1767 – 17 July 1798) was an Irish republican executed in Belfast for his part in leading United Irishmen in the Rebellion of 1798.Convinced that the cause of representative government in Ireland could not be advanced under the British Crown, McCracken had sought to forge a revolutionary union between his fellow Presbyterians in Ulster and the country's largely ...
Myles (or Miles) Byrne (20 March 1780 – 24 January 1862) was an insurgent leader in Wexford in the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and a fighter in the continued guerrilla struggle against British Crown forces in the Wicklow Hills until 1802.
It was captured by Sir John Reynolds who put most of those inside to death. [9] 19 May 1798 Gibbet Rath executions: Curragh, County Kildare: 300–500 part of the Irish Rebellion of 1798: 1798, 25 May Dunlavin Green executions: Dunlavin, County Wicklow: 36 3 Massacre of rebel prisoners by loyalist militia. Part of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 ...
Dr Emmet supported the cause of American independence and was a well-known figure on the fringes of the Irish patriot movement. Theobald Wolfe Tone , a friend of Emmet's elder brother, Thomas Addis Emmet , and an advocate of more radical reform, including Catholic Emancipation , was a visitor to the house. [ 2 ]