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Newgate Prison 1798 Memorial Dublin: Co. Dublin: General war memorial [34] 1798 Memorial Dunboyne: Co. Meath: General war memorial [citation needed] 1798 Memorial, Dundalk Dundalk: Co. Louth: Local veterans [35] Dungarvan 1798 Memorial Dungarvin: Co. Waterford: Local veterans [36] Dunlavin 1798 Memorial Dunlavin: Co. Wicklow: Local veterans [37 ...
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.
Michael Dwyer (1 January 1772– 23 August 1825) was an insurgent captain in the Irish Rebellion of 1798, leading the United Irish forces in battles in Wexford and Wicklow. Following the defeat and dispersal of the rebel hosts, in July 1798 Dwyer withdrew into the Wicklow Mountains , and to his native Glen of Imaal, where he sustained a ...
The 1798 Rebellion proper broke out on 23 May that year with initial skirmishes in Counties Kildare, Meath and Wexford. Rebels escaping from engagements in Kilcullen and Ballymore Eustace , under the direction of rebel leader General Joe Holt, [ 36 ] dispersed to the Wicklow Mountains overlooking Blessington, where they formed a camp at Whelp ...
Myles (or Miles) Byrne (20 March 1780 – 24 January 1862) was an insurgent leader in Wexford in the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and a fighter in the continued guerrilla struggle against British Crown forces in the Wicklow Hills until 1802.
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]
The second Battle of Arklow took place during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 on 9 June when a force of United Irishmen from Wexford, estimated at 10,000 strong, launched an assault into County Wicklow, on the British-held town of Arklow, in an attempt to spread the rebellion into Wicklow and to threaten the capital of Dublin.
Their activity culminated in the Irish Rebellion of 1798. When the central core of the plan, an uprising in Dublin, failed, the rebellion then spread in an apparently random fashion firstly around Dublin, then briefly in Kildare, Meath, Carlow and Wicklow.