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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 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.
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 ...
Emerging to meet them, Holt was given much of the credit for the planning of the ambush and defeat of a pursuing force of 200 British cavalry at Ballyellis on 30 June 1798. However, the subsequent Midlands campaign to revive the rebellion was a disaster, and Holt was lucky to escape with his life back to the safety of the Wicklow Mountains.
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 took place in May 1798, but the only significant uprisings outside of the province of Ulster occurred in counties Wicklow and Wexford, both south of County Dublin. The rebels were met with a swift response from the Dublin Castle administration and the bulk of the rebellion was suppressed within a year. [1]
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 Wicklow Militia, later the Wicklow Rifles, was an Irish Militia regiment raised in County Wicklow in 1793. It saw service during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 . It was later converted into a militia artillery unit before being disbanded in 1909.