Irish Rebellion of 1798

The Irish Rebellion of 1798 or 1798 rebellion as it is known locally, was an uprising in 1798, lasting several months, against the British establishment in Ireland. The United Irishmen, a republican revolutionary group influenced by the ideas of the French Revolution, were the main organizing force behind the rebellion.

Aftermath

Pockets of rebel resistance remained in Wexford with the last rebel group under James Corocoran not being defeated until February 1804. Wicklow experienced a form of fugitive warfare in the years after 1798 but the failure of Robert Emmet's rebellion in 1803 finally convinced the last organised rebel forces under Michael Dwyer to a negotiated surrender in 1804.

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Robert Emmet's - Michael Dwyer

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The Act of Union on January 1st 1801 which took away the measure of autonomy granted to Ireland's Protestant minority was largely in response to the rebellion and the feeling that the rebellion was provoked as much by the brutish misrule of the Ascendancy as by the efforts of the revolutionaries.

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Act of Union - 1801 - Protestant

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Religious and economic discrimination against the Catholic majority continued much as before but Presbyterian radicalism was effectively tamed and reconciled to British rule by their inclusion in a new Protestant Ascendancy, as opposed to a mere Anglican one. The resulting effect was that Irish politics in the 19th century was steered away from the unifying vision of the United Irishmen, encouraged by Unionists Dublin Castle and exploited by politicians such as Daniel O?Connell, towards a sectarian model which has largely endured to the present day.

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Anglican - United Irishmen - Dublin Castle - Daniel O?Connell - Sectarian

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