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Thread: 1798 Irish Rebellion (23 May-12 Oct)!

"To unite Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter under the common name of Irishmen in order to break the connection with England, the never failing source of all our political evils, that was my aim" Wolfe Tone https://t.co/7XpE8Dog9c

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2022-05-23

Capt Henry Harrison OBE MC* MP (17 Dec 1867 Co Feb 1954). Despite being Protestant, against RIC in Donegal evictions; became celebrity! Bodyguard of Parnell; after death devoted himself to Katharine. Wrote about divorce from their side. https://t.co/YOdA0KvFgr

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2021-12-17

10 Jan 1560: following Elizabeth I's accession, John Bale former then evangelical polemicist, playwright, antiquarian & bishop of is made a canon of cathedral (BM/eebo)
He never went back to which he’d fled under Mary I.

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2021-01-10

1798: Scullabogue Barn massacre near Co Some rebels massacred 100-200 noncombatant men, women & children, mostly Protestant, held prisoner in a barn which was then set alight. Due to burning alive of rebel prisoners at New Ross? https://t.co/ejvVscYAIN

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2019-06-05