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  2. Irish Rebellion of 1798 - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Battle of Ballinamuck - Wikipedia

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    British losses were initially reported as 3 killed and 16 wounded or missing, [4] but the number of killed alone was later reported as 12. [5] Approximately 500 French and Irish lay dead on the field. 200 Irish prisoners were taken in the mopping-up operations, almost all of whom were later hanged, including Matthew Tone, brother of Wolfe Tone .

  4. James Corcoran - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. 1798 in Ireland - Wikipedia

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    Great Britain's Irish militia arrest the leadership of the Society of United Irishmen marking the beginning of the Irish Rebellion of 1798. [1] A number are arrested at the house of Oliver Bond on 12 March. Lord Castlereagh is appointed Acting Chief Secretary for Ireland. 30 March – martial law is proclaimed in Ireland.

  6. Battle of the Big Cross - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of the Big Cross was a military engagement of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 between a force of United Irishmen rebels and a column of government troops. It was fought on 19 June 1798 on a spot on the Shannonvale-Ballinascarty road known locally as the "Big Cross", approximately four miles east of Clonakilty in West Cork.

  7. James Hope (Ireland) - Wikipedia

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    In the Rebellion of 1798 he fought alongside Henry Joy McCracken at the Battle of Antrim. In 1803 he attempted to renew the insurrection against the British Crown in an uprising coordinated by Robert Emmett and the new republican directorate in Dublin. Among United Irishmen, Hope was distinguished by his conviction that "the fundamental ...

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  9. John Kelly of Killanne - Wikipedia

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    Research near the rebellion's bicentennial showed that Kelly was a churchwarden at the local St. Ann's for many years before the rebellion. [2] He was one of the leaders of the rebel victory at the Battle of Three Rocks which led to the capture of Wexford town but was later seriously wounded while leading a rebel column at the Battle of New Ross .