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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.
Irish Rebellion of 1798; Acts of Union 1800; Irish rebellion of 1803; Young Ireland rebellion; Fenian Rising; Fenian raids; Fenian dynamite campaign; Easter Rising; 1918 general election; Irish revolutionary period; Irish War of Independence; Irish Civil War; 1932 general election; S-Plan; Border Campaign; The Troubles; Arms Crisis; 1981 Irish ...
The Fenian Brotherhood trace their origins back to 1790s, in the rebellion, seeking an end to British rule in Ireland initially for self-government and then the establishment of an Irish Republic. The rebellion was suppressed, but the principles of the United Irishmen were to have a powerful influence on the course of Irish history.
The Fenian raids were a series of incursions carried out by the Fenian Brotherhood, an Irish republican organization based in the United States, on military fortifications, customs posts and other targets in Canada (then part of British North America) in 1866, and again from 1870 to 1871.
The Kilkenny Militia had arrived at Castlebar the day before, and with the cadre of the 6th Foot, some of the 6th Dragoon Guards, and detachments from some yeomanry and fencible regiments, Hutchinson had about 1700 men, backed by four 6-pounders and a howitzer of the Royal Irish Artillery (RIA). However, the force drawn from more than 10 units ...
Irish Rebellion of 1798: 1803 Irish Rebellion of 1803: 1831–36 Tithe War: 1848 Young Irelander Rebellion: 1867 Fenian Rising: 1870–93 Land War: 1916 Easter Rising: Part of the Irish revolutionary period: 1919–22 Irish War of Independence: Part of the Irish revolutionary period 1922–23 Irish Civil War: Part of the Irish revolutionary ...
6 January – Anna Maria Hall, novelist (died 1881). 16 January – Robert Bell, journalist and writer (died 1867). 26 February – John Baptist Purcell, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cincinnati (died 1883 in the United States). 17 March – James Patrick Mahon, Irish nationalist politician and international mercenary (died 1891).
An Irish Catholic Priest who was hung, drawn and quartered for supposedly aiding the murder of John Bridges (though there are claims that Bridges survived) [51] 20 September 1803: Robert Emmet: Hanged and then beheaded once dead [52] for high treason in the Irish Rebellion of 1803. [53] [54] [55] He was also the last person to be executed in ...