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49419
A rebel ambush in the woods of County Wicklow,from a contemporary Print
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Led by Michael Dwyer and Joseph Holt,rebels adopted guerrilla war in Wicklow,which took several years to burn itself out
49405
A reconstruction by William Sadler of the Battle of Vinegar Hill painted in about 1880
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Well directed artillery gave the British regulars and Irish militia a crushing advantage
49416
Admiral Warren-s ships pounding the Brest fleet of Genceral Hardy after intercepting it off Lough Swilly
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The French and their Irish allies fought with desperate courage
49379
Arthur O-Connor,Lord Edward-s ally
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who left for London-Perhaps bound for France
49399
Belfast Assembly Rooms
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where McCracken was tried and condemned to be hanged
49377
Charles James Fox,Leader of the Whig Opposition and Grattan-s most important ally in London
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But both men had now decide that it was a waste of breath to speak in their respective Parliaments
49408
Charles James Fox,the British leader of the opposition
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supposed to have corrupted his cousin.Lord Edward Fitzgerald,whose ghost haunts him in his villa near London,together with the headless bodies of the Sheares brothers and other conspirators
49396
Cruikshank-s grim picture of the scene at Scullabogue barn,Country Wexford on June 5
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About 200 men,women and children,almost all Protestant,were piked or burnt to death by United Irishmen.
74992
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The daughter of a wealthy landowner in Jamaica, Sarah Goodin Barrett Moulton was born in 1783.
49383
Dublin Castle in the 1790s,seat fo the Viceroy and hub of Briish Power
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But it was a castle only in name and quite indefensible
49384
Dublin harbour with the domed Custom House in the background
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On the eve of the rebellion Dublin-s Population was estimated at 200000,making Dublin the second city of the empire
49372
Edward Cooke,under-secretary at Dublin castle
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More robust thn Camden,he tended to side with Camden-s anti Catholic advisers
49392
Erin Go Brach
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James Gillray-s caricature of an Irish rebel,often erroneously said to be Grattan
49413
Erin Go Bray
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An English caricature drawn by Samson in 1798
49393
Father Murphy,
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the United Irish leader in Wexford
showing his flock what he thought of heretic bullets
49403
General John Moore
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later to win fame in the Peninsular War,recaptured Wexford on 2 June
49386
General Lake
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The heavy-handed English general who succeeded Abercromby as Irish commander-in-chief
49414
General Lake accepts General Humbert-s sword as a token of surrender at Ballinamuck
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Less chivalrous was Lake-s treatment of France-s Irish allies capturad after the battle
49366
General Lazare Hoche the 28-year-old
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Commander-in Chief of the 15000 French soldiers sent to Liberate Ireland in December 1796
49415
General Napper Tandy
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Tone-s bitter rival
49370
George III,King of Britain and Ireland since 1760
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Humiliated by the loss of the American colonies,he had reluctantly agreed to Pitt-s Catholics.
49376
Henry Grattan
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once the darling of the Irish Parliament but now denounced as a covert United Irishman
49412
Heroic conduct of the Highland Sentinel
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Cruikshank-s Picture of an act of heroism at the Battle of Castlebar
49418
His death mask in his alma mater
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Trinity College,Dublin
49424
Hunted Down
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By the time of the first 98 centenary the rebellion was rememb er not as a horrific civil war but as a simple story of a people-s Struggle against their oppressors
49409
In Mid-july the survivors of the Wexford and Wicklow armies tried to cut their way through to the Midlands
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but 2000 rebels were repulsed by twenty-seven yeomen in a fortified post at Clonard,County Meath
49380
John Sheares,radical barrister
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With his brother Henry he supposedly joined the new Executive after the arrest of most of the United Irish Leaders at Bond-s House.
49420
Joseph Holt,one of the few Protestants who fought with the rebels in Wicklow
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He was later transported to Botany Bay
49388
Kildare rebels piking an old man
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George Crawford,and his granddaughter,another scene from Cruikshank
49371
Lord Camdern
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the Irish Viceroy,high-minded and humane,but unterly demoralized by trying to govern Ireland.
49373
Lord Castlereagh Pitt-s 28-year-old Protege and acting chief secretary
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Inexperienced as he was,he had to manage the wild Irish gentry who controlled the Dublin Parliament
49374
Lord Clare
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the formidable Lord Chancellor and one of the leader of the informal cabinet
49406
Lord Cornwallis,who succeeded
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Lord Camden as Viceroy in mid June was determined to impose peace on Irland
49378
Lord Edward Fitzgerald
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Younger brother of the great Kidare magnate,the Duke of Leinster, and first cousin of James Fox
49389
Loyalists awaiting attack by the rebels on a country house in Wicklow
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A contemporary watercolour by an eye-witness,Caroline Hamilton,showing how ware is an odd mixture of terror and boredom
49398
McCracken-s United and twentieth century portrait
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As commander of the United army of Antrim he was one of the few original political leaders of the movement to take part in a battle
49368
Most of the French armada sent to Bantry By Limped back in January 1797 to their bases in France
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one battleship,the Droits de I-homme with 600 troops under general Humbert.was intercepted off brest by two british frigates.
49382
Napoleon Bonaparte during his victorious campaign in Italy
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After Hoche-s Sudden death in
1797
49387
On 19 May,Lord Edward Fitzgerald
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the reputed commander in chief of the United Irish armies,Stabbed to death Captain Ryan who was sent t arrest him and was then shot and mortally wounded by Town Major Sirr
49395
Rebels dancing the Carmagnolle in a captured house by cruikshank
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49421
Robert Emmet 24-year-old brother of Thomas Addis Emmet
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the United Irish leader
49397
The Battle of Arklow on 9 June,the Turning point of the Wexford rising
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An army of Wexford rebels
led by Father Murphy and reupted 19000 Strong,stormed the Wicklow borker town Like madmen and were Flung back with huge losses.
49400
The Battle of Ballynahinch on 13 June by Thomas Robinson,the most detailed and authentic picture of a battle painted in 1798
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Robinson,who lived nearby,shows the closing stages of the battle in Lord Moira-s demesne at Montalto
49410
The French are on the sea,says the Shan Van Vocht
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William Sadler-s reconstruction of Humbert-s troop landing at Killala on 22 August
49375
The Irish House fo Commons addressed by Henry Grattan in 1780 during the campaign to force Britain to give Ireland free trade and legislative independ
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Grattan,and many of the MPs,are wearing Volunteer uniform to show they mean business.
49381
The Port of Brest
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the naval base from which the French sent their expeditions to invade Ireland.
49402
The rebels executing their prisoners on the bridge at Wexford
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on 20 June,
ninety-seven loyalists were piked and their bodies thrown in the river
49411
The Revolutionary army in action
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A detail from a contemporary picture of Napoleon-s victory at the Battle of the Pyramids in 1798
49385
The Royal Exchange
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Dublin in the 1790s
the centre of fashionable life.Despite the threat of rebellion,the city was wide open to attack ,and none of the bridges had
guard-posts
49407
The Unfortunate Henry Sheares
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With his brother John
he was arrested before the rising convicted of high treason in July,and hanged in Dublin
49401
The United army of Down has been broken b the King-s troops
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Gerneral Nugent wave to some dragoons rideing in with the rebel-s Liberty standards
49423
The United Irish Patriots of 1798
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reincarnated in 1898 for the first centenary of the rebellion
49367
Theobald Wolfe Tone,the 33-year-old
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United Irish Leade who persuaded the French to try to Liverate Ireland
49422
Thomas Street,Dubli the Scene of Rober Emmet-s execution in 1803
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Late nineteenth-century engraving
49390
United Irishmen in Training
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Gillray-s carica ture,Published in 1798
49391
United Irishmen upon Duty
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Another Gillray caricature of 1798
49394
Wexford rebels helping themselves at the table of the Bishop of Ferns
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By Cruikshank
49369
William Pitt
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Britain-s war-weary Prime Minister
Ireland,he knew,was the weakest link in Britain-s line of defence against France
49404
William Sadler-s dramatic reconstruction of a calvary charge in 1798
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painted in the 1880s
The Hessians were German mercenaries,notorious for atrocities against unarmed men and women
49417
Wolfe Tone in the Uniform of a French Adjutant general as he apeared at his court-martial in Dublin
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He had no illusions of what was in store for him