The '98 and its aftermath [images]

I. Lead up to rebellion

government crackdown of SUI

> Insurrection Act

formation of the Orange Order

Battle of the Diamond (Defenders vs. Peep O Day Boys, Sept 1795)

society went underground in 1795

contacts with the Defenders and the French

Hoche expedition (1796)

government response

General Gerard Lake (C-in-C)

croppies

Seamus Heaney, "Requiem for the Croppies"

pitchcapping/tarheads

II. outbreak of rebellion in May 1798

Humbert expedition

Cornwallis

30,000 Irishmen and women killed

Tone's capture and death

 

III. Legacies of '98

retaliation

 

exile

Robert Emmet rising

> Lord Lieutenant's report

> Emmet's speech from the dock

New South Wales

 

sectarianism

growth of the Orange Order

Ribbonmen

 

the Union of 1801

> Pitt's speech (1799)

> Act of Union

Irish administration

Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington

Robert Peel, Chief Secretary

George III and emancipation