ch 11 - the 1798 rebellion

What is nationalism

people who wanted independence from the brits

What was unionism

People who wanted britian to continue ruling ireland

what were parlimentary means to independence and who were its leaders in 1798

• using the parliment

• PEACEFUL

  • Issac Butt, Daniel O connel, Parnell and redmond

what was physical force tradition and who was involved in it in 1978

• meant organzing armed rebellion or uprising to defeat the army in ireland

Wolfe tone !

What were the causes of 1798 rebellion

• power of protestant ascendancy ( they owned most of the land, had loads of power over parliment)

• Penal lawns (laws discriminated against the catholics and Presbyterians, they had to pau tithes (10 oercent of their crops) to the anglican clergy

• poverty in the countryside (people were bad off, high rents)

• influence of american and french revolutions

• united irishmen (wanted to reduce english power in Ireland, they sought the reform of the representation of the people in ireland, so more people could vote, and wanted to include all religions in that reform)

Tell me absolutely everythinng oyu can about wolfe tone

• dublin lawyer

• one of the leaders of united irishmen

• wrote a pamphlet in arguement for the catholics

• supported govt in getting rid of all the penal las

• brits feared french invasion, stopped reforms and started repressing

• united irishmen were banned and became a secret society

• started planning a rebellion

• he went to america and france for help, they provided, tjhey also tried to land in cork, however the weather was shit and and they returned to frnace

• his ops then changed and now he koved the king, and that he wanted to reform parliment, and then he wanted to sever connection with england

What was the response to the 1798 rebellion from the british

general lake burnt houses, tortured and flogged suspects and went around confisticating guns

irishmen had grown to 300,000, but spies snitched and bam bam bam gone

What happened during the actual 1798 rebelllion

• Dublin kildare andn meath, attacked mail coaches, rising stopped quickly

• in wexford, they won in three areas, and shot and piked 100 protestants in a barn in wexford town

• leaders were executed

• ulster also rebelled, leaders ececuted

• french troops won in castlebar, defeated in longford

• wolf tone arrived, but was captured on the board of a french fleet, sentenced to death

• wanted to be shot like a soldier but instead took his own life

Why were the unitited irishmen defeated

• some leaders arrested before

• rising wasnt coordinated

• spies

• british were stronger w better guns

• rebel forced poorly trained

• french were shit help

consequences of the rising

• death and destruction

• THE ACT OF UNION (ended parliment in dublin, irish lords and mps had to sat in westminster, ireland ruled from london until 1922)

  • brits wanted them in london because they didnt want a frnech invasion

  • afraid irish parliment would lead to catholics in parliment

• more divide between prods and catholics (protestants worried theyd get burned like the ones in wexford, catholics thought theyd get beaten up by the orange order

• influenced future risings, the idea of a republic