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Lord Edward FitzGerald (15 October 1763 – 4 June 1798) was an Irish aristocrat and nationalist. He abandoned his prospects as a distinguished veteran of British service in the American War of Independence, and as an Irish Parliamentarian, to embrace the cause of an independent Irish republic.
Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare (died 1537), known as "Silken Thomas," also led an unsuccessful insurrection in Ireland, while Lord Edward FitzGerald (1763–1798), the fifth son of the first duke of Leinster, was a leading figure in the 1798 Irish Rebellion against King George III of the House of Hanover.
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Henry Charles Sirr (25 November 1764 – 7 January 1841) was an Anglo-Irish military officer, policeman, merchant and art collector. He played a prominent role in suppressing the Irish Rebellion of 1798, which included personally killing Society of United Irishmen leader Lord Edward FitzGerald, who Sirr alleged had been resisting arrest.
FitzGerald Memorial Gort: Co. Galway: Lord Edward FitzGerald [47] 1798 Memorial Glenmalure: Co. Wicklow: Local veterans [48] Tara 1798 Memorial Hill of Tara: Co. Meath: Croppies and the Battle of Tara Hill [49] Kilcumney Hill Memorial Kilcumney Hill Co. Carlow: Battle of Kilcumney Hill [50] Fitzgerald Memorial Kildare: Co. Kildare: Lord Edward ...
Lord Edward FitzGerald (15 October 1763 – 4 June 1798), revolutionary and prominent leader of the United Irishmen during the 1798 rising. Lord Robert Stephen FitzGerald (1765 – 2 January 1833), a diplomat; married Sophia Charlotte Fielding and had issue. Lord Gerald FitzGerald (January 1766 – 1788).
Lady Emily played an important role in the development of the house and estate as it is today. She created the Chinese Room (bedroom of Queen Victoria) and decorated the famous Shell Cottage on the property with shells from around the world. One of their 23 children was the famous Irish patriot Lord Edward FitzGerald, a leader of the 1798 ...
4 June – Lord Edward FitzGerald, aristocrat and revolutionary (born 1763). 17 July – Henry Joy McCracken, cotton manufacturer and industrialist, Presbyterian and a founding member of the Society of the United Irishmen (born 1767). 6 September – Walter Patterson, first British colonial Governor of Prince Edward Island (b. c1735).