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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.
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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.
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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
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Belfast Assembly Rooms
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where McCracken was tried and condemned to be hanged
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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
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Robinson,who lived nearby,shows the closing stages of the battle in Lord Moira-s demesne at Montalto
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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
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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
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General John Moore
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later to win fame in the Peninsular War,recaptured Wexford on 2 June
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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
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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
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Lord Cornwallis,who succeeded
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Lord Camden as Viceroy in mid June was determined to impose peace on Irland
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Heroic conduct of the Highland Sentinel
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Cruikshank-s Picture of an act of heroism at the Battle of Castlebar
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Erin Go Bray
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An English caricature drawn by Samson in 1798
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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
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General Napper Tandy
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Tone-s bitter rival
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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
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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
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His death mask in his alma mater
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Trinity College,Dublin
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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
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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
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Robert Emmet 24-year-old brother of Thomas Addis Emmet
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the United Irish leader
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Thomas Street,Dubli the Scene of Rober Emmet-s execution in 1803
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Late nineteenth-century engraving
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The United Irish Patriots of 1798
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reincarnated in 1898 for the first centenary of the rebellion
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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
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daughter
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The daughter of a wealthy landowner in Jamaica, Sarah Goodin Barrett Moulton was born in 1783.
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