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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.
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 ...
Some historians contend that the rebellions in 1837 ought to be viewed in the wider context of the late-18th- and early-19th-century Atlantic Revolutions.The American Revolutionary War of 1775–1783, the French Revolution of 1789–99, the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1804, the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and the rebellions in Spanish America (1810–1825) were inspired by republican ideals, [1 ...
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 Kingdom of Ireland, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (County Wicklow) Michael Dwyer's Guerrilla campaign: Michael Dwyer and his followers (Society of United Irishmen) 1800 ...
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
The Year of Liberty: the great Irish rebellion of 1798. Thomas Pakenham. Granada 1982. Memoirs of Joseph Holt, General of the Irish Rebels in 1798, vols 1–2. T. C. Croker (editor), London, 1838. 'Keeping up the flame' General Joseph Holt. Ruan O' Donnell. History Ireland. Vol. 6. No. 2. 1998. Papers of Peter O'Shaughnessy, National Library of ...
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 first resistance led by Riel, the Red River Rebellion (1869–1870), occurred before the transfer of Rupert's Land from the HBC to Canada. In December 1869, Riel and Métis settlers of the Red River Colony seized Upper Fort Garry to negotiate favourable terms for the colony's entry into Canadian confederation. [ 205 ]