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ID |
Image |
Painting (From A to Z) |
Details |
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49419 |
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A rebel ambush in the woods of County Wicklow,from a contemporary Print |
mk197
Led by Michael Dwyer and Joseph Holt,rebels adopted guerrilla war in Wicklow,which took several years to burn itself out
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49405 |
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A reconstruction by William Sadler of the Battle of Vinegar Hill painted in about 1880 |
mk197
Well directed artillery gave the British regulars and Irish militia a crushing advantage
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|
49416 |
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Admiral Warren-s ships pounding the Brest fleet of Genceral Hardy after intercepting it off Lough Swilly |
mk197
The French and their Irish allies fought with desperate courage |
|
49379 |
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Arthur O-Connor,Lord Edward-s ally |
mk197
who left for London-Perhaps bound for France
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|
49399 |
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Belfast Assembly Rooms |
mk197
where McCracken was tried and condemned to be hanged
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|
49377 |
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Charles James Fox,Leader of the Whig Opposition and Grattan-s most important ally in London |
mk197
But both men had now decide that it was a waste of breath to speak in their respective Parliaments
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|
49408 |
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Charles James Fox,the British leader of the opposition |
mk197
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
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|
49396 |
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Cruikshank-s grim picture of the scene at Scullabogue barn,Country Wexford on June 5 |
mk197
About 200 men,women and children,almost all Protestant,were piked or burnt to death by United Irishmen.
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|
74992 |
|
daughter |
The daughter of a wealthy landowner in Jamaica, Sarah Goodin Barrett Moulton was born in 1783. |
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49383 |
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Dublin Castle in the 1790s,seat fo the Viceroy and hub of Briish Power |
mk197
But it was a castle only in name and quite indefensible
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|
49384 |
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Dublin harbour with the domed Custom House in the background |
mk197
On the eve of the rebellion Dublin-s Population was estimated at 200000,making Dublin the second city of the empire |
|
49372 |
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Edward Cooke,under-secretary at Dublin castle |
mk197
More robust thn Camden,he tended to side with Camden-s anti Catholic advisers
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|
49392 |
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Erin Go Brach |
mk197
James Gillray-s caricature of an Irish rebel,often erroneously said to be Grattan
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|
49413 |
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Erin Go Bray |
mk197
An English caricature drawn by Samson in 1798
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49393 |
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Father Murphy, |
mk197
the United Irish leader in Wexford
showing his flock what he thought of heretic bullets
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|
49403 |
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General John Moore |
mk197
later to win fame in the Peninsular War,recaptured Wexford on 2 June
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|
49386 |
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General Lake |
mk197
The heavy-handed English general who succeeded Abercromby as Irish commander-in-chief |
|
49414 |
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General Lake accepts General Humbert-s sword as a token of surrender at Ballinamuck |
mk197
Less chivalrous was Lake-s treatment of France-s Irish allies capturad after the battle
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49366 |
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General Lazare Hoche the 28-year-old |
mk197
Commander-in Chief of the 15000 French soldiers sent to Liberate Ireland in December 1796
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|
49415 |
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General Napper Tandy |
mk197
Tone-s bitter rival
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|
49370 |
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George III,King of Britain and Ireland since 1760 |
mk197
Humiliated by the loss of the American colonies,he had reluctantly agreed to Pitt-s Catholics. |
|
49376 |
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Henry Grattan |
mk197
once the darling of the Irish Parliament but now denounced as a covert United Irishman |
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49412 |
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Heroic conduct of the Highland Sentinel |
mk197
Cruikshank-s Picture of an act of heroism at the Battle of Castlebar
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|
49418 |
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His death mask in his alma mater |
mk197
Trinity College,Dublin
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|
49424 |
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Hunted Down |
mk197
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
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49409 |
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In Mid-july the survivors of the Wexford and Wicklow armies tried to cut their way through to the Midlands |
mk197
but 2000 rebels were repulsed by twenty-seven yeomen in a fortified post at Clonard,County Meath
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|
49380 |
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John Sheares,radical barrister |
mk197
With his brother Henry he supposedly joined the new Executive after the arrest of most of the United Irish Leaders at Bond-s House.
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|
49420 |
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Joseph Holt,one of the few Protestants who fought with the rebels in Wicklow |
mk197
He was later transported to Botany Bay
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|
49388 |
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Kildare rebels piking an old man |
mk197
George Crawford,and his granddaughter,another scene from Cruikshank |
|
49371 |
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Lord Camdern |
mk197
the Irish Viceroy,high-minded and humane,but unterly demoralized by trying to govern Ireland.
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|
49373 |
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Lord Castlereagh Pitt-s 28-year-old Protege and acting chief secretary |
mk197
Inexperienced as he was,he had to manage the wild Irish gentry who controlled the Dublin Parliament
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|
49374 |
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Lord Clare |
mk197
the formidable Lord Chancellor and one of the leader of the informal cabinet |
|
49406 |
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Lord Cornwallis,who succeeded |
mk197
Lord Camden as Viceroy in mid June was determined to impose peace on Irland
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|
49378 |
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Lord Edward Fitzgerald |
mk197
Younger brother of the great Kidare magnate,the Duke of Leinster, and first cousin of James Fox
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|
49389 |
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Loyalists awaiting attack by the rebels on a country house in Wicklow |
mk197
A contemporary watercolour by an eye-witness,Caroline Hamilton,showing how ware is an odd mixture of terror and boredom
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|
49398 |
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McCracken-s United and twentieth century portrait |
mk197
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
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|
49368 |
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Most of the French armada sent to Bantry By Limped back in January 1797 to their bases in France |
mk197
one battleship,the Droits de I-homme with 600 troops under general Humbert.was intercepted off brest by two british frigates.
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|
49382 |
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Napoleon Bonaparte during his victorious campaign in Italy |
mk197
After Hoche-s Sudden death in
1797
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|
49387 |
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On 19 May,Lord Edward Fitzgerald |
mk197
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 |
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49395 |
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Rebels dancing the Carmagnolle in a captured house by cruikshank |
mk197
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|
49421 |
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Robert Emmet 24-year-old brother of Thomas Addis Emmet |
mk197
the United Irish leader
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|
49397 |
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The Battle of Arklow on 9 June,the Turning point of the Wexford rising |
mk197
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.
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|
49400 |
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The Battle of Ballynahinch on 13 June by Thomas Robinson,the most detailed and authentic picture of a battle painted in 1798 |
mk197
Robinson,who lived nearby,shows the closing stages of the battle in Lord Moira-s demesne at Montalto
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|
49410 |
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The French are on the sea,says the Shan Van Vocht |
mk197
William Sadler-s reconstruction of Humbert-s troop landing at Killala on 22 August
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|
49375 |
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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 |
mk197
Grattan,and many of the MPs,are wearing Volunteer uniform to show they mean business.
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|
49381 |
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The Port of Brest |
mk197
the naval base from which the French sent their expeditions to invade Ireland. |
|
49402 |
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The rebels executing their prisoners on the bridge at Wexford |
mk197
on 20 June,
ninety-seven loyalists were piked and their bodies thrown in the river
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|
49411 |
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The Revolutionary army in action |
mk197
A detail from a contemporary picture of Napoleon-s victory at the Battle of the Pyramids in 1798
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|
49385 |
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The Royal Exchange |
mk197
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 |
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The Unfortunate Henry Sheares |
mk197
With his brother John
he was arrested before the rising convicted of high treason in July,and hanged in Dublin
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|
49401 |
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The United army of Down has been broken b the King-s troops |
mk197
Gerneral Nugent wave to some dragoons rideing in with the rebel-s Liberty standards
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|
49423 |
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The United Irish Patriots of 1798 |
mk197
reincarnated in 1898 for the first centenary of the rebellion
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|
49367 |
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Theobald Wolfe Tone,the 33-year-old |
mk197
United Irish Leade who persuaded the French to try to Liverate Ireland |
|
49422 |
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Thomas Street,Dubli the Scene of Rober Emmet-s execution in 1803 |
mk197
Late nineteenth-century engraving
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|
49390 |
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United Irishmen in Training |
mk197
Gillray-s carica ture,Published in 1798
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|
49391 |
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United Irishmen upon Duty |
mk197
Another Gillray caricature of 1798 |
|
49394 |
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Wexford rebels helping themselves at the table of the Bishop of Ferns |
mk197
By Cruikshank
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|
49369 |
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William Pitt |
mk197
Britain-s war-weary Prime Minister
Ireland,he knew,was the weakest link in Britain-s line of defence against France
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|
49404 |
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William Sadler-s dramatic reconstruction of a calvary charge in 1798 |
mk197
painted in the 1880s
The Hessians were German mercenaries,notorious for atrocities against unarmed men and women
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|
49417 |
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Wolfe Tone in the Uniform of a French Adjutant general as he apeared at his court-martial in Dublin |
mk197
He had no illusions of what was in store for him
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