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Since the 16th century, there has been a series of uprisings against British rule in Ireland. These uprisings played a major role in the formation of Irish nationalism and republicanism . After the Irish Rebellion of 1798 , such uprisings became more revolutionary and republican in nature.
1803 – Irish rebellion of 1803: failed republican uprising led by Robert Emmet. 1831–1836 – Tithe War: a period of rural insurgency over the payment of tithes to the Church of Ireland by non-members. 1848 – Young Ireland rebellion: failed Irish nationalist uprising by the Young Ireland group.
The Easter Rising (Irish: Éirí Amach na Cásca), [2] 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 while the United Kingdom was fighting the First World War.
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.
The Irish Rebellion of 1641 [a] was an uprising in Ireland, initiated on 23 October 1641 by Catholic gentry and military officers. Their demands included an end to anti-Catholic discrimination, greater Irish self-governance, and return of confiscated Catholic lands .
There were large protests in Ireland against the execution of Fenian prisoners, many of whose death sentences were, as a result, reprieved. In addition, the bravery of the three "Manchester Martyrs" on their execution provoked an emotional reaction among the Irish public, 17 monuments were erected in their honour and annual commemorations were ...
The Irish Rebellion of 1798, a republican uprising against British rule of Ireland; The United Irish Uprising of 1800, an uprising against British rule of Newfoundland; The 1803 Irish rebellion, for independence, led by Robert Emmet; The Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848, also called The Famine Rebellion of 1848; The Fenian Rising of 1867
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.