• The Catholic Irish Brigade was a brigade of the British Army raised during the French Revolutionary Wars, raised mostly from former members of the French...
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  • Brigade (17941798), a British Army unit Franco-Irish Ambulance Brigade (1870) Tyneside Irish Brigade, World War I British Army brigade of Irish immigrants...
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    government in Ireland. Despairing of constitutional reform, and in defiance both of British Crown forces and of Irish sectarian division, in 1798 the United...
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  • Irish Regiment" The Volunteers of Ireland (1777–82), were renamed the 105th Regiment of Foot The Catholic Irish Brigade (1794-1798) 4th Royal Irish Dragoon...
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    Wolfe Tone (category 1798 deaths)
    Tone (Irish: Bhulbh Teón; 20 June 1763 – 19 November 1798), was a revolutionary exponent of Irish independence and is an iconic figure in Irish republicanism...
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  • location of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, which was aided by the French. A minor, abortive uprising in 1803 resulted in the death of Ireland's chief justice...
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    development of Irish nationalism since the eighteenth century, despite most Irish nationalists historically being from the Irish Catholic majority, as well...
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  • Callanan of the Irish-language "Príosún Chluain Meala", a song from the time of the Whiteboys Songs relating to the Irish Rebellion of 1798 (though not necessarily...
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    The Irish rebellion of 1803 was an attempt by Irish republicans to seize the seat of the British government in Ireland, Dublin Castle, and trigger a nationwide...
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  • of Foot, or Mackay's Highlanders, 1794-1802, with an account of its services in Ireland during the rebellion of 1798, Edinburgh: Blackwood, pp. 353–361...
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    Ireland was established in 1798. Its name is a tribute to the Dutch-born Protestant king William of Orange, who defeated Catholic king James II in the Williamite–Jacobite...
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  • Irish republicanism (Irish: poblachtánachas Éireannach) is the political movement for an Irish republic, void of any British rule. Throughout its centuries...
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    Dillon's Regiment (France) (category Irish regiments in French service)
    elements of the French regiment passed into William Pitt's British Catholic Irish Brigade in 1794. These elements comprised the greater part of the officers who...
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  • Longford Rifles was an Irish Militia regiment raised in County Longford in 1793. It saw action during the Irish Rebellion of 1798, when it was involved...
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  • Roman Catholic Relief Act 1791. A short-lived Catholic Irish Brigade was formed in 1794 from refugee royalist officers from the formerly French Irish Brigade...
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    November 1794, he now served first in the Army of the Rhine and later in the Army of Italy as of 24 April 1798. When he reached Italy in 1798, the Treaty...
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  • Flanders where it fought at the April 1794 Battle of Beaumont. The unit returned to Ireland and helped suppress the 1798 Irish Rebellion, including the battles...
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    Jacobitism (category Articles containing Irish-language text)
    Irish Jacobites on the issue of returning all Catholic lands confiscated in 1652 after the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. The majority of the Irish...
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  • James Coigly (category 18th-century Irish Roman Catholic priests)
    O'Coigley and James/Jeremiah Quigley) (1761 – 7 June 1798) was a Roman Catholic priest in Ireland active in the republican movement against the British...
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    Robert Emmet (category Irish Anglicans)
    September 1803) was an Irish Republican, orator and rebel leader. Following the suppression of the United Irish uprising in 1798, he sought to organise...
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    Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (category 19th-century Anglo-Irish people)
    Netherlands. On 15 September 1794, at the Battle of Boxtel, east of Breda, Wellington, in temporary command of his brigade, had his first experience of...
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  • of Panmure 1770–1789: Lt-Gen. Hon. Alexander Mackay 1789–1794: Gen. Hon. James Murray 1794–1803: Gen. James Inglis Hamilton 1803–1816: Gen. Hon. William...
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    were English, 4 Irish, 1 Welsh and 2 Manx. "Most of the Fencible Corps," writes Sir John Fortescue "were created either in 1794 or 1798, and to judge by...
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  • King's County Royal Rifle Militia (category Irish regiments of the British Army)
    Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians). It saw action during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and the Second Boer War, and trained thousands of reinforcements...
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    William Loftus (British Army officer) (category Irish MPs 1798–1800)
    the grateful citizens of Cork in 1798 to take command of Laughlinstown camp. In the same year, he commanded a brigade at the battle of Vinegar Hill and...
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    Arthur O'Connor (United Irishman) (category Irish MPs 1790–1797)
    Patriotic Songs: : Compiled for the Use of the People of Ireland (1798) The Portrait of an Irish Executive Director, by Himself and His Friends (1799) État...
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    Thomas James Clarke (Irish: Tomás Séamus Ó Cléirigh; 11 March 1858 – 3 May 1916) was an Irish republican and a leader of the Irish Republican Brotherhood...
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    James Connolly (category Articles containing Irish-language text)
    Rising against British rule in Ireland. He remains an important figure both for the Irish labour movement and for Irish republicanism. He became an active...
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    Lisburn (/ˈlɪzbɜːrn, ˈlɪsbɜːrn/; from Irish Lios na gCearrbhach [ˌl̠ʲɪsˠ n̪ˠə ˈɟaːɾˠwəx]) is a city in Northern Ireland. It is 8 mi (13 km) southwest of Belfast...
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  • mean when he drinks. Particularly the real Irish." Attitudes regarding Irish Catholics depended on gender. Irish women were sometimes stereotyped as "reckless...
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