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The Scullabogue massacre was a mass murder of civilians committed in Scullabogue, near Newbawn, County Wexford, Ireland on 5 June 1798, during the 1798 rebellion.A guarding party of rebels massacred up to 200 [1] noncombatant men, women and children, most of whom were Protestant (there were also about 20 Catholics), who were held prisoner in a barn which was then set alight.
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.
His exploits are commemorated in the famous Irish ballad Kelly the Boy From Killane written by Patrick Joseph McCall (1861–1919). Liam Gaul describes how McCall wrote the song to commemorate the centenary of the 1798 Rebellion, although it was not published in book form until it appeared in McCall's Irish Fireside Songs in 1911. [5]
The Battle of Antrim was fought on 7 June 1798, in County Antrim, Ireland during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 between British troops and Irish insurgents led by Henry Joy McCracken. The British won the battle, beating off a rebel attack on Antrim town following the arrival of reinforcements but the county governor, John O'Neill, 1st Viscount O ...
This category contains historical battles fought as part of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 (May 23–July 14, 1798). Please see the category guidelines for more information. Pages in category "Battles of the Irish Rebellion of 1798"
28 May – Wexford Rebellion: Rebels take Enniscorthy. 29 May – Gibbet Rath massacre: Summary execution of 300–500 rebels by the British Army on the Curragh of Kildare. [4] 30 May – rebels occupy the town of Wexford. May – Blessington House, County Wicklow is burnt to the ground by rebels, and will never be rebuilt. [5] [6]
Clane 1798 Memorial Clane: Co. Kildare: Battle of Coiseanna Hill [19] Clonakilty 1798 Memorial Clonakilty: Co. Cork: Local veterans [20] Battle of Big Cross Memorial Clonakilty: Co. Cork: Battle of the Big Cross [21] Clonegal 1798 Memorial Clonegal: Co. Carlow: Local veterans [22] 1798 Memorial Castlebar: Co. Mayo: General war memorial [23 ...
Elizabeth "Betsy" Gray (c. 1778 or 1780 - 1798), is a folkloric figure in the annals of 1798 Rebellion in Ireland. Ballads, poems and popular histories celebrate her presence in the ranks of the United Irishmen, and her death, on 12 June 1798 at the Battle of Ballynahinch. Contemporary records are unable to confirm the tale that has been told ...