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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.
28 February – Roddy McCorley, United Irishman and a leader of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 (executed). Richard Geoghegan, agriculturalist (born 1717). Approximate date – Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill, noblewoman and poet, composer of Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire (born 1743).
Michael Dwyer (1 January 1772– 23 August 1825) was an insurgent captain in the Irish Rebellion of 1798, leading the United Irish forces in battles in Wexford and Wicklow. Following the defeat and dispersal of the rebel hosts, in July 1798 Dwyer withdrew into the Wicklow Mountains , and to his native Glen of Imaal, where he sustained a ...
Women in Ireland, 1800–1918: A Documentary History. Cork U. Press, 1995. 356 pp. McCormack, W. J. ed. The Blackwell Companion to Modern Irish Culture (2002) Mokyr, Joel. Why Ireland Starved: A Quantitative and Analytical History of the Irish Economy, 1800–1850. Allen & Unwin, 1983. 330 pp. online edition
Irish War of Independence: 1936 Ireland The Dawn: Tom Cooper Drama, History. Irish War of Independence: 1936 United States Beloved Enemy: H. C. Potter: Drama, Romance, War. Michael Collins, Irish War of Independence: 1937 United Kingdom The High Command: Thorold Dickinson: Crime, Drama, War. Based on a novel The General Goes Too Far. Irish War ...
1867 – Fenian Rising: an abortive attempt at a nationwide rebellion by the Irish Republican Brotherhood. 1879–1882 – Land War : A period of agitation in rural Ireland led by The Irish National Land League , the main aims of the war were to get Free sale, fixity of tenure, and fair rent for the tenant farmers.
Daniel Gahan describes this rising as a 'crescent of United Irish mobilisation', [1] with the western parishes to converge at Kilthomas Hill on the morning of 27 May. One such group of one hundred or so had gathered on the evening of 26 May at The Harrow , near the parish of Boolavogue under the tutelage of Fr. John Murphy when they encountered ...
A large-scale migration of Irish immigrants to Newfoundland was occurring concurrently, which increased after the rebellion; by 1800, two-thirds of the population of St. John's, and many in the British garrison, were Irish. In April 1800, rumors began to spread in St. John's that as many as 400 Irish people, including soldiers in the ...