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Northern Ireland. 5 9 A mass shooting by the UDA. 1993, 25 March Castlerock killings: Castlerock, Northern Ireland 4 1 A mass shooting by the UDA 1993, 23 October Shankill Road bombing: Belfast, Northern Ireland: 10 57 A mass bombing by the IRA in a protestant area that killed mostly civilians. Part of "the Troubles". 1993, 30 October Greysteel ...
Long after, in the 1950s, two skeletons and a sword and bayonet of the York fencibles were found in the area. However, the rebellion in Down would prove short lived. The day after the battle, "Pike Sunday", Birch preached to the whole rebel army assembled at Creevy Rocks, a hill outside the town:
The Rising, also known as the Easter Rebellion, was an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week in April 1916. The Rising was launched by Irish republicans against British rule in Ireland with the aim of establishing an independent Irish Republic. It was the first armed conflict of the Irish revolutionary period.
Musashi is considered a kensei (sword saint) of Japan. [3] He was the founder of the Niten Ichi-ryū , or Nito Ichi-ryū, style of swordsmanship, and in his final years authored The Book of Five Rings ( 五輪の書 , Go Rin No Sho ) and Dokkōdō (獨行道, The Path of Aloneness ).
Rebellion breaks out in Clare and Limerick in the west and Antrim in the north. Charles Coote routs a rebel force at Swords in Dublin. March: Drogheda is relieved by English troops. 19 March: the English Parliament passes the Adventurers' Act, allowing for the mass confiscation of Catholic land in Ireland.
The Great Sword (Claideamh Mòr) or claymore was a two-handed sword favored by both Scottish Highlanders and the Gallowglass in Ireland. During the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance period, weapon imports from Europe influenced Gaelic weapon design.
The Nine Years' War, sometimes called Tyrone's Rebellion, [1] [2] took place in Ireland from 1593 to 1603. It was fought between an Irish confederacy—led mainly by Hugh O'Neill of Tyrone and Hugh Roe O'Donnell of Tyrconnell—against English rule in Ireland, and was a response to the ongoing Tudor conquest of Ireland.
Thomas Francis Meagher (/ m ɑːr / MAR; 3 August 1823 – 1 July 1867 [1]) was an Irish nationalist and leader of the Young Irelanders in the Rebellion of 1848.After being convicted of sedition, he was first sentenced to death but received transportation for life to Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) in Australia.