| ID |
Painting |
Oil Pantings, Sorted from A to Z |
Painting Description |
| 49419 |
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A rebel ambush in the woods of County Wicklow,from a contemporary Print |
mk197
Led by Michael Dwyer and Joseph Holt,rebels adopted guerrilla war in Wicklow,which took several years to burn itself out
|
| 49405 |
 |
A reconstruction by William Sadler of the Battle of Vinegar Hill painted in about 1880 |
mk197
Well directed artillery gave the British regulars and Irish militia a crushing advantage
|
| 49416 |
 |
Admiral Warren-s ships pounding the Brest fleet of Genceral Hardy after intercepting it off Lough Swilly |
mk197
The French and their Irish allies fought with desperate courage |
| 49379 |
 |
Arthur O-Connor,Lord Edward-s ally |
mk197
who left for London-Perhaps bound for France
|
| 49399 |
 |
Belfast Assembly Rooms |
mk197
where McCracken was tried and condemned to be hanged
|
| 49377 |
 |
Charles James Fox,Leader of the Whig Opposition and Grattan-s most important ally in London |
mk197
But both men had now decide that it was a waste of breath to speak in their respective Parliaments
|
| 49408 |
 |
Charles James Fox,the British leader of the opposition |
mk197
supposed to have corrupted his cousin.Lord Edward Fitzgerald,whose ghost haunts him in his villa near London,together with the headless bodies of the Sheares brothers and other conspirators
|
| 49396 |
 |
Cruikshank-s grim picture of the scene at Scullabogue barn,Country Wexford on June 5 |
mk197
About 200 men,women and children,almost all Protestant,were piked or burnt to death by United Irishmen.
|
| 74992 |
 |
daughter |
The daughter of a wealthy landowner in Jamaica, Sarah Goodin Barrett Moulton was born in 1783. |
| 49383 |
 |
Dublin Castle in the 1790s,seat fo the Viceroy and hub of Briish Power |
mk197
But it was a castle only in name and quite indefensible
|
| 49384 |
 |
Dublin harbour with the domed Custom House in the background |
mk197
On the eve of the rebellion Dublin-s Population was estimated at 200000,making Dublin the second city of the empire |
| 49372 |
 |
Edward Cooke,under-secretary at Dublin castle |
mk197
More robust thn Camden,he tended to side with Camden-s anti Catholic advisers
|
| 49392 |
 |
Erin Go Brach |
mk197
James Gillray-s caricature of an Irish rebel,often erroneously said to be Grattan
|
| 49413 |
 |
Erin Go Bray |
mk197
An English caricature drawn by Samson in 1798
|
| 49393 |
 |
Father Murphy, |
mk197
the United Irish leader in Wexford
showing his flock what he thought of heretic bullets
|
| 49403 |
 |
General John Moore |
mk197
later to win fame in the Peninsular War,recaptured Wexford on 2 June
|
| 49386 |
 |
General Lake |
mk197
The heavy-handed English general who succeeded Abercromby as Irish commander-in-chief |
| 49414 |
 |
General Lake accepts General Humbert-s sword as a token of surrender at Ballinamuck |
mk197
Less chivalrous was Lake-s treatment of France-s Irish allies capturad after the battle
|
| 49366 |
 |
General Lazare Hoche the 28-year-old |
mk197
Commander-in Chief of the 15000 French soldiers sent to Liberate Ireland in December 1796
|
| 49415 |
 |
General Napper Tandy |
mk197
Tone-s bitter rival
|
| 49370 |
 |
George III,King of Britain and Ireland since 1760 |
mk197
Humiliated by the loss of the American colonies,he had reluctantly agreed to Pitt-s Catholics. |
| 49376 |
 |
Henry Grattan |
mk197
once the darling of the Irish Parliament but now denounced as a covert United Irishman |
| 49412 |
 |
Heroic conduct of the Highland Sentinel |
mk197
Cruikshank-s Picture of an act of heroism at the Battle of Castlebar
|
| 49418 |
 |
His death mask in his alma mater |
mk197
Trinity College,Dublin
|
| 49424 |
 |
Hunted Down |
mk197
By the time of the first 98 centenary the rebellion was rememb er not as a horrific civil war but as a simple story of a people-s Struggle against their oppressors
|
| 49409 |
 |
In Mid-july the survivors of the Wexford and Wicklow armies tried to cut their way through to the Midlands |
mk197
but 2000 rebels were repulsed by twenty-seven yeomen in a fortified post at Clonard,County Meath
|
| 49380 |
 |
John Sheares,radical barrister |
mk197
With his brother Henry he supposedly joined the new Executive after the arrest of most of the United Irish Leaders at Bond-s House.
|
| 49420 |
 |
Joseph Holt,one of the few Protestants who fought with the rebels in Wicklow |
mk197
He was later transported to Botany Bay
|
| 49388 |
 |
Kildare rebels piking an old man |
mk197
George Crawford,and his granddaughter,another scene from Cruikshank |
| 49371 |
 |
Lord Camdern |
mk197
the Irish Viceroy,high-minded and humane,but unterly demoralized by trying to govern Ireland.
|
| 49373 |
 |
Lord Castlereagh Pitt-s 28-year-old Protege and acting chief secretary |
mk197
Inexperienced as he was,he had to manage the wild Irish gentry who controlled the Dublin Parliament
|
| 49374 |
 |
Lord Clare |
mk197
the formidable Lord Chancellor and one of the leader of the informal cabinet |
| 49406 |
 |
Lord Cornwallis,who succeeded |
mk197
Lord Camden as Viceroy in mid June was determined to impose peace on Irland
|
| 49378 |
 |
Lord Edward Fitzgerald |
mk197
Younger brother of the great Kidare magnate,the Duke of Leinster, and first cousin of James Fox
|
| 49389 |
 |
Loyalists awaiting attack by the rebels on a country house in Wicklow |
mk197
A contemporary watercolour by an eye-witness,Caroline Hamilton,showing how ware is an odd mixture of terror and boredom
|
| 49398 |
 |
McCracken-s United and twentieth century portrait |
mk197
As commander of the United army of Antrim he was one of the few original political leaders of the movement to take part in a battle
|
| 49368 |
 |
Most of the French armada sent to Bantry By Limped back in January 1797 to their bases in France |
mk197
one battleship,the Droits de I-homme with 600 troops under general Humbert.was intercepted off brest by two british frigates.
|
| 49382 |
 |
Napoleon Bonaparte during his victorious campaign in Italy |
mk197
After Hoche-s Sudden death in
1797
|
| 49387 |
 |
On 19 May,Lord Edward Fitzgerald |
mk197
the reputed commander in chief of the United Irish armies,Stabbed to death Captain Ryan who was sent t arrest him and was then shot and mortally wounded by Town Major Sirr |
| 49395 |
 |
Rebels dancing the Carmagnolle in a captured house by cruikshank |
mk197
|
| 49421 |
 |
Robert Emmet 24-year-old brother of Thomas Addis Emmet |
mk197
the United Irish leader
|
| 49397 |
 |
The Battle of Arklow on 9 June,the Turning point of the Wexford rising |
mk197
An army of Wexford rebels
led by Father Murphy and reupted 19000 Strong,stormed the Wicklow borker town Like madmen and were Flung back with huge losses.
|
| 49400 |
 |
The Battle of Ballynahinch on 13 June by Thomas Robinson,the most detailed and authentic picture of a battle painted in 1798 |
mk197
Robinson,who lived nearby,shows the closing stages of the battle in Lord Moira-s demesne at Montalto
|
| 49410 |
 |
The French are on the sea,says the Shan Van Vocht |
mk197
William Sadler-s reconstruction of Humbert-s troop landing at Killala on 22 August
|
| 49375 |
 |
The Irish House fo Commons addressed by Henry Grattan in 1780 during the campaign to force Britain to give Ireland free trade and legislative independ |
mk197
Grattan,and many of the MPs,are wearing Volunteer uniform to show they mean business.
|
| 49381 |
 |
The Port of Brest |
mk197
the naval base from which the French sent their expeditions to invade Ireland. |
| 49402 |
 |
The rebels executing their prisoners on the bridge at Wexford |
mk197
on 20 June,
ninety-seven loyalists were piked and their bodies thrown in the river
|
| 49411 |
 |
The Revolutionary army in action |
mk197
A detail from a contemporary picture of Napoleon-s victory at the Battle of the Pyramids in 1798
|
| 49385 |
 |
The Royal Exchange |
mk197
Dublin in the 1790s
the centre of fashionable life.Despite the threat of rebellion,the city was wide open to attack ,and none of the bridges had
guard-posts |
| 49407 |
 |
The Unfortunate Henry Sheares |
mk197
With his brother John
he was arrested before the rising convicted of high treason in July,and hanged in Dublin
|
| 49401 |
 |
The United army of Down has been broken b the King-s troops |
mk197
Gerneral Nugent wave to some dragoons rideing in with the rebel-s Liberty standards
|
| 49423 |
 |
The United Irish Patriots of 1798 |
mk197
reincarnated in 1898 for the first centenary of the rebellion
|
| 49367 |
 |
Theobald Wolfe Tone,the 33-year-old |
mk197
United Irish Leade who persuaded the French to try to Liverate Ireland |
| 49422 |
 |
Thomas Street,Dubli the Scene of Rober Emmet-s execution in 1803 |
mk197
Late nineteenth-century engraving
|
| 49390 |
 |
United Irishmen in Training |
mk197
Gillray-s carica ture,Published in 1798
|
| 49391 |
 |
United Irishmen upon Duty |
mk197
Another Gillray caricature of 1798 |
| 49394 |
 |
Wexford rebels helping themselves at the table of the Bishop of Ferns |
mk197
By Cruikshank
|
| 49369 |
 |
William Pitt |
mk197
Britain-s war-weary Prime Minister
Ireland,he knew,was the weakest link in Britain-s line of defence against France
|
| 49404 |
 |
William Sadler-s dramatic reconstruction of a calvary charge in 1798 |
mk197
painted in the 1880s
The Hessians were German mercenaries,notorious for atrocities against unarmed men and women
|
| 49417 |
 |
Wolfe Tone in the Uniform of a French Adjutant general as he apeared at his court-martial in Dublin |
mk197
He had no illusions of what was in store for him
|
