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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.
Resistance (released as Rebellion Season 2 on Netflix) is a 2019 television miniseries written by Colin Teevan for Irish broadcaster RTÉ, dramatising the events surrounding the Irish War of Independence. [1] [2] Set during the time of Bloody Sunday in 1920, it is a sequel to the 2016 mini-series, Rebellion, which was set during the 1916 Easter ...
The Fenian Rising proved to be a "doomed rebellion", poorly organised and with minimal public support. Most of the Irish-American officers who landed at Cork, in the expectation of commanding an army against England, were imprisoned; sporadic disturbances around the country were easily suppressed by the police, army and local militias. [15]
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 ...
Irish Republican Brotherhood, Irish Citizen Army, Irish Volunteers, Cumann na mBan: 1919–22 Irish Republic: War of Independence: Irish Republican Army (1917–22), Cumann na mBan: 1939–40 England Sabotage Campaign: Irish Republican Army (1922-1969) 1942–44 Republic of Ireland-United Kingdom border: Northern Campaign: Irish Republican Army ...
Quartered arms of Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, KG. Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry, KG, GCH, PC, PC (Ire) (18 June 1769 – 12 August 1822), usually known as Lord Castlereagh, [1] derived from the courtesy title Viscount Castlereagh [a] (UK: / ˈ k ɑː s əl r eɪ / KAH-səl-ray) by which he was styled from 1796 to 1821, was an Irish-born British statesman and politician.
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 ...
Irish Rebellion of 1641: Part of the Eleven Years' War: 1642–49 Confederate War: Part of the Eleven Years' War 1649–53 Cromwellian conquest of Ireland: Part of the Eleven Years' War 1689–91 Williamite–Jacobite War: Part of the War of the Grand Alliance: 1798 Irish Rebellion of 1798: 1803 Irish Rebellion of 1803: 1831–36 Tithe War: 1848