An Irish Diary on Edward Despard: the Irish officer who served in the British army but was executed as a revolutionary
A campaign by Despard’s wife, Catherine, ensured his imprisonment became the subject of a three-week debate in the House of ...
The Irish Times8d
The Spirit Of 1798
Sir, - While there is a revival of interest nationally in the 1798 Rebellion, this incident, described to me about 20 years ago by a local schoolteacher in Coolgreany, shows that in Wexford and ...
BBC1y
The United Irishmen
At the end of May 1798 the British discovered a plot similar to the earlier French invasion plan and the leaders of the United Irishmen were arrested. Ireland was now well defended and the poorly ...