Research Catalog

Title

The mighty wave : the 1798 rebellion in Wexford / Dáire Keogh & Nicholas Furlong, editors.

Publication

Blackrock, Co. Dublin : Four Courts Press, 1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Keogh, Dáire.
• Furlong, Nicholas.

Description

187 p. : ill., maps, ports.; 24 cm.

Summary

A collection of papers delivered to the inaugural Comoradh '98 Conference in Wexford, together with a selection of the proceedings of the first Byrne-Perry Summer School, both of which were held in 1995.

Subject

• 1798
• Ireland > History > Rebellion of 1798
• Wexford (Ireland) > History
• Ireland > History > Rebellion of 1798 > Congresses
• Wexford (Ireland : County) > History > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Reinterpretating the 1798 Rebellion in County Wexford / Kevin Whelan -- Sectarianism in the Rebellion of 1798: the eighteenth-century context / Daire Keogh -- The United Irishmen in Wexford / L.M. Cullen -- Dublin in 1798: the key to the planned insurrection / Thomas Graham -- The Battle of Oulart Hill: context and strategy / Brian Cleary -- The military planning of the 1798 Rebellion in Wexford / Daniel Gahan -- Local or cosmopolitan?: the strategic importance of Wexford in 1798 / Nicholas Furlong -- Miles Byrne: United Irishmen, Irish exiles and Beau Savreur / Thomas Bartlett -- 1798 claimed for Catholics: Father Kavanagh, Fenians, and the centenary celebrations / Anna Kinsella -- Chronology.

ISBN

• 1851822534 (cased)
• 1851822542 (pbk)

LCCN

gb^96065997^

OCLC

• 36900659
• SCSB-10760841

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library