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The Easter Rising (Irish: Éirí Amach na Cásca), [2] also known as the Easter Rebellion, was an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week in April 1916. The Rising was launched by Irish republicans against British rule in Ireland with the aim of establishing an independent Irish Republic while the United Kingdom was fighting the First World War.
The siege of Galway took place from August 1651 to 12 May 1652 during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.Galway was the last city held by Irish Catholic forces in Ireland and its fall signalled the end to most organised resistance to the Parliamentarian conquest of the country.
The Irish Rebellion of 1798 (Irish: Éirí Amach 1798; Ulster-Scots: The Turn out, [6] The Hurries, [7] 1798 Rebellion [8]) was a popular insurrection against the British Crown in what was then the separate, but subordinate, Kingdom of Ireland. The main organising force was the Society of United Irishmen.
James Connolly (Irish: Séamas Ó Conghaile; [1] 5 June 1868 – 12 May 1916) was a Scottish-born Irish republican, socialist, and trade union leader, executed for his part in the 1916 Easter Rising against British rule in Ireland.
Irish Rebellion: The citizens of Galway seize an English ship and declare for the rebellion: 03: 19: 1642: Galway 1st: Irish Rebellion: Nineteen hundred (1,900) English soldiers arrive in Dublin: 03: 21: 1642: Irish Rebellion: Robert Monro arrives in Ulster with an advance party of 2,500 men from Scotland: 04: 15: 1642: Irish Rebellion
The Irish Rebellion of 1641 [a] was an uprising in Ireland, initiated on 23 October 1641 by Catholic gentry and military officers. Their demands included an end to anti-Catholic discrimination, greater Irish self-governance, and return of confiscated Catholic lands .
The city of Galway Ireland was built as a naval base and military fort by Tairrdelbach mac Ruaidri Ua Conchobair in 1124. It was refounded as a military outpost and town by Richard Mor de Burgh in 1230. It has been subjected to a number of battles, sacks and sieges. This article enumerates the history of military conflict in Galway.
1803 – Irish rebellion of 1803: failed republican uprising led by Robert Emmet. 1831–1836 – Tithe War: a period of rural insurgency over the payment of tithes to the Church of Ireland by non-members. 1848 – Young Ireland rebellion: failed Irish nationalist uprising by the Young Ireland group.