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- Herausgeber: The O'Brien Press
- Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018
The English invasions of Ireland were never accepted. Each generation of Irish rebels resisted and, in doing so, faced certain death. They became martyrs and left behind speeches and watchwords to spark the flames of nationalism and idealism. Using eyewitness accounts, speeches and illustrative material, Helen Litton describes these most important Irish rebellions, from the United Irishmen of 1798 to the IRA of the War of Independence. The Irish rebellions through the years of Irish history beginning with the 1798 rebellion told through illustration and word. These engaging illustrations will bring to life some of the most pivotal events in Irish history. This illustrated history book will examine the rebellions of Ireland with a focus on the principal figures involved. Rebellions begun by Irish people who were not afraid to take on a powerful Establishment and claim their right to self-determination. This book covers six major rebellions in Irish History: The Rebellion of 1798 The Rebellion of 1803 The Rebellion of 1848 The Fenian Campaigns Easter Rising, 1916 The War of Independence
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This autobiography, edited with great skill by Helen Litton, is particularly valuable as it casts a fresh perspective on key figures and moments in the struggle for independence.’ The Irish Catholic on Kathleen Clarke: Revolutionary Woman
‘[A]n uncomplicated biography of the éminence grise of the Rising.’ Sunday Business Post on Thomas Clarke: 16 Lives
‘As a short intelligent overview of 1845–50, it will be hard to surpass.’ RTÉ Guide on The Irish Famine: An Illustrated History
Contents
From the time that Britain first began to take an interest in the country on her western flank in the twelfth century, the history of the two islands was one of constant struggle. The most important developments are often those that take place slowly and quietly, taking years to mature, but these possibilities of forward movement can be side-tracked or derailed completely by sudden eruptions of violence. Sometimes these eruptions help to encourage something which might otherwise not have happened.
The 1798 Rebellion, and those following it, were manifestations of a groundswell of movement for civil and religious rights, and national independence, in a way not true of earlier uprisings. The seventeenth-century Nine Years’ War, for example, spearheaded by Hugh O’Neill, earl of Tyrone and Rory O’Donnell, earl of Tyrconnell, was a final, despairing effort to hold onto ancestral lands, and prevent the inexorable movement of Tudor power throughout Ireland. The war ended when the chiefs of Ireland sailed away to Spain in September 1607, an event known as ‘The Flight of the Earls’. They left their people behind in a war-ravaged countryside, facing starvation and brutality. It is unlikely that these leaders were thinking in ‘nationalistic’ terms; nationalism, as such, was a development of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Each chief was fighting for his own heritage, and to hold on to the old Gaelic traditions.
The Tudor system of plantations, i.e., ‘planting’ Protestant settlers from Britain in confiscated lands in Ireland, continued through the seventeenth century. Any whiff of rebellion merely provided the authorities with further excuses to confiscate land, a sort of fig-leaf to conceal greed. The tensions caused by placing small, vulnerable groups of foreign settlers among large numbers of resentful, disaffected natives often led to brutal and despairing outbreaks, instantly punished by the arrival of troops.
One of these was the 1641 Rebellion, planned in Ulster by members of the dispossessed noble Gaelic families. Rebels plundered Dundalk, Newry, Carrickmacross and other towns. Many settler families were killed or injured, and rumours of mass slaughters terrified the planters. The rising spread to Connacht and Leinster, and as far as Limerick and Tipperary, but by spring of 1642, it had been defeated. The Confederate War which followed lasted until 1644. The uprising rooted itself in Protestant mythology as an example of what Irish Catholics were capable of if they were not strictly controlled, or, preferably, exterminated. But there had been very little in the way of central co-ordination or national aim to begin with.
This book may help to demonstrate how successful later leaders actually were, either in imposing any kind of central command, or in developing a universally supported aim through their activities.
I am exceedingly grateful to The O’Brien Press for allowing me to make some additions to the original text, including the new chapter on the War of Independence, and for their assistance in choosing illustrations.
The train of explosive which led to rebellion in 1798 was laid by the American War of Independence (1775–83), and the fuse was lit by the French Revolution of 1789. Eighteenth-century Western Europe was a ferment of new ideas about the ‘Rights of Man’, democracy and republicanism, and a growing resentment of tyranny and royalism.
In Ireland, these ideas were slow to take root, largely because there was no system of universal education. Those who were first attracted by them were educated middle-class gentlemen, including some members of the Irish Parliament, based in Dublin. Many of those involved in the United Irish movement, which instigated the rebellion, were Presbyterians, belonging to a form of Protestantism which differed from the dominant Church of Ireland. Presbyterians had suffered along with Roman Catholics under a range of Penal Laws, which discriminated against those who were not Church of Ireland adherents.
In 1793, a Catholic Relief Act gave Catholics some legal freedoms, but not enough. New thinking about the equality of all humankind in the sight of God, and the offensiveness of bigotry and prejudice on the grounds of religion, inspired the leaders of the 1798 Rebellion to work for a freer and more equal society. This would mean removing the monarch as the head of state, and they accepted that this could be done only by force.
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