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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.
Battle of Vinegar Hill, 21 June 1798. The second phase of the Rising occurred between 1 June and 21 June 1798. The citizens of County Wexford established a republican regime with civilian leadership. This republic decided to split up the rebels of Wexford; one group was to move north toward Dublin, the other west toward New Ross. The group sent ...
On May 30th, 1798, United Irish Insurgent forces intercepted the reinforcements for the Wexford garrison at this place. The overwhelming of the troops resulted in the evacuation of Wexford by Crown forces. In this engagement Colonel Thomas Cloney, of the Bantry Battalion of the United Irishmen commanded the Insurgent forces. In the nearby
Henry Joy McCracken (31 August 1767 – 17 July 1798) was an Irish republican executed in Belfast for his part in leading United Irishmen in the Rebellion of 1798.Convinced that the cause of representative government in Ireland could not be advanced under the British Crown, McCracken had sought to forge a revolutionary union between his fellow Presbyterians in Ulster and the country's largely ...
The victory of General Humbert at the Battle of Castlebar, despite gaining him around 5,000 extra Irish recruits, had not led to a renewed outbreak of the rebellion in other areas as hoped; the defeat of the earlier revolt had devastated the Irish republican movement to the extent that few were willing to renew the struggle.
Clane 1798 Memorial Clane: Co. Kildare: Battle of Coiseanna Hill [19] Clonakilty 1798 Memorial Clonakilty: Co. Cork: Local veterans [20] Battle of Big Cross Memorial Clonakilty: Co. Cork: Battle of the Big Cross [21] Clonegal 1798 Memorial Clonegal: Co. Carlow: Local veterans [22] 1798 Memorial Castlebar: Co. Mayo: General war memorial [23 ...
When, in the early summer of 1798, it broke into open rebellion, Tone was in exile soliciting assistance from the French Republic. In October 1798, on his second attempt to land in Ireland with French troops and supplies, he was taken prisoner. Sentenced to be hanged, he died from a reportedly self-inflicted wound.