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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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
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).
James Corcoran (c.1780 – 1804) was an Irish rebel leader who following the suppression of the United Irish insurrection of 1798, maintained a guerrilla resistance to the British Crown forces in counties Wexford and Kilkenny until his final defeat and death in 1804.
The history of Ireland from 1691–1800 was marked by the dominance of the Protestant Ascendancy.These were Anglo-Irish families of the Anglican Church of Ireland, whose English ancestors had settled Ireland in the wake of its conquest by England and colonisation in the Plantations of Ireland, and had taken control of most of the land.
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 ...