Set 30 Oct 03

General Topics | 1798 Rebellion & United Irishmen | Young Ireland Movement
Fenians & IRB | The Famine/Great Hunger | Daniel O'Connell
Home Rule & Parnell

General Topics

• 1695-1850: A time of revolution and the Great Famine
• 1170-1691: From Strongbow to the establishment of Protestant ascendancy
• A "Perverse and Ill-Fated People": English Perceptions of the Irish, 1845-52 essay by Ed Lengel, University of Virginia
• Catastrophic Dimensions: The Rupture of English and Irish Identities in Early Modern Ireland, 1534-1615 essay by D. W. Cunnane
• The Pamphleteer's Protestant Champion: Viewing Oliver Cromwell Through the Media of his Day essay by Kevin A. Creed
• Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland
• History of Ireland from 16th Century to the Creation of an Irish Republic essay by Jacqueline Dana
• Chronology 1800-1900
• The Levellers and Irish Freedom
• Catholic Emancipation by Marjie Bloy

The United Irishmen & 1798

• 1798 IRELAND (resources pertaining to the United Irishmen)
• Chronology of 1798 Rebellion
• Agrarian Rebels, Secret Societies and Defenders, 1761-91 by Jim Smyth
• The 1798 Rising in Ireland (narrative history by Tony Breathnach)
• The United Irishmen, the Act of Union, and Emmet's Rebellion, 1791-1803 (the Linen Hall Library's United Irish Website with primary sources; requires paid subscription to their service)
• 1798 Rebellion Home Page
• North of Ireland 1798 Rebellion: Antrim
• The 1798 rebellion in Ireland essay by Andrew Flood (puts rising into historical context)
• 1798: the United Irishmen and the early Trade Unions
• Official Declaration of the United Irishmen
• Extracts from the Life of Wolfe Tone
• The 1798 rebellion in Ireland
• The 1798 Rebellion Home Page
• 1798 Rebellion (from Irish Northern Aid)
• Reinterpreting the 1798 Rebellion in County Wexford essay by Kevin Whelan
• Remembering Robert Emmet
• 1798: The Year of Liberty (chronology and other materials)
• Women of '98 (from AP/RN)
• Battle of Ballinamuck (1798) (from AP/RN)
• Historian of United Irishmen (from AP/RN)
• Wolfe Tone in France (from AP/RN)
• Thomas Reynolds informer of '98 (from AP/RN)
• Extracts from A Biographical Dictionary of Irishmen in France. By Richard Hayes, 1949

Daniel O'Connell

• Daniel O'Connell: Speech before the House of Commons in 1833 while debating the Irish Disturbances Bill

Young Irelanders

• Richard D'Alton Williams Young Irelander (from AP/RN)
• Thomas Davis Young Ireland leader (from AP/RN)
• Young Ireland poet Denny Lane (from AP/RN)
• Charles Gavan Duffy

Fenians & Irish Republican Brotherhood

• The Fenian Invasions of Canada
• Michael Doheny, Fenian Leader (bio, from a lecture by Michael O'Donnell)
• The Fenians (from Old Ireland)
• Transportation to Botany Bay (from AP/RN)
• IRB recruiting officers (from AP/RN)
• John Keegan Casey Fenian, poet and revolutionary (from AP/RN)
• The Fenian Raid(s) of Upper and Lower Canada

Home Rule & Charles Stewart Parnell

• 1850-1909: Parnell, Gladstone and the battle for Home Rule (BBC News: History of Ireland)
• Charles Stewart Parnell (Compton's Encyclopedia)
• Charles Stewart Parnell (from Old Ireland)
• Daniel O'Connell by Marjie Bloy

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