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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.
The expected Irish Rebellion finally broke out in May 1798, and during its suppression the Londonderry Militia operated in Counties Dublin, Wicklow, Kildare, Carlow and Wexford. [9] Most of the regiment was engaged at the battles of Gorey, The Curragh , New Ross , Arklow , Foulksmills , Blackmore Hill and Vinegar Hill .
28 February – Roddy McCorley, United Irishman and a leader of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 (executed). Richard Geoghegan, agriculturalist (born 1717). Approximate date – Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill, noblewoman and poet, composer of Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire (born 1743).
Irish Rebellion of 1641: Phelim Ó Neill, Rory Ó Moore, Conor Maguire, Hugh Óg MacMahon 1642–52 Kingdom of Ireland Irish Confederate Wars: Irish Catholic Confederation: 1689–91 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
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
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 ...
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.
Largely in response to the rebellion, Irish self-government was abolished altogether from 1 January 1801 by the provisions of the Acts of Union 1800. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] The Irish Parliament , dominated by the Protestant landed class, was persuaded to vote for its own abolition for fear of another rebellion and with the aid of bribery by Lord ...