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France–Ireland relations (French: Relations entre la France et l'Irlande; Irish: Caidreamh idir an Fhrainc agus Éire) refers to the bilateral relations between France and Ireland. France and Ireland are both members of the Council of Europe , European Union and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development .
The French expedition to Ireland, known in French as the Expédition d'Irlande ("Expedition to Ireland"), was an unsuccessful attempt by the French Republic to assist the outlawed Society of United Irishmen, a popular rebel Irish republican group, in their planned rebellion against British rule during the French Revolutionary Wars. The French ...
Uniform and colonel's flag of the Regiment of Hibernia in Spanish service, mid-eighteenth century Portumna castle.Wild Geese heritage museum. The Flight of the Wild Geese was the departure of an Irish Jacobite army under the command of Patrick Sarsfield from Ireland to France, as agreed in the Treaty of Limerick on 3 October 1691, following the end of the Williamite War in Ireland.
The French commanders were also restricted by Louis XIV and Louvois who distrusted field campaigns, preferring Vauban, the taker of fortifications, rather than campaigns of movement. [157] Bombardment of Brussels, 1695. Fortifications consisted of low-level, geometric earthworks; the ground plan was polygonal with a pentangle bastion at each ...
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When, in 1794, dealings between Tone and the French government were discovered, the group was broken up. It soon reorganised, becoming more secretive and even more determined to overthrow the British government in Dublin. In late 1796, a large French invasion armada, carrying as many as 14,000 [4] soldiers, arrived off Ireland's south coast ...
A Catholic priest who had been active in bringing Defenders into the movement in Ulster, [71] Coigly sought to persuade both French Directory and the leadership in Ireland of a larger project. Beginning in 1796, United Irish agents had helped build networks of United Englishmen and United Scotsmen , societies whose proceedings, oath-taking, and ...
The Irish Republic of 1798, more commonly known as the Republic of Connacht, was a short-lived state proclaimed during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 that resulted from the French Revolutionary Wars. A sister republic of the French Republic , it theoretically covered the whole island of Ireland , but its functional control was limited to only very ...