The Year of Liberty - The Great Irish Rebellion of 1798 - Illustrated Edition

This classic account of the great Irish rebellion of 1798 remains the only full-scale history of that tragic event. 1798 was to be the First Year of Irish Liberty in the new Irish revolutionary calendar. For a few short weeks the United Irishmen, inspired by France, set up an Irish Republic in parts of Ireland. But the dream of independence soon collapsed into the nightmare of sectarian civil war. In the North, the rebels were mainly Presbyterian, in the court, mainly Catholic. Most Protestants of the established church stayed loyal to the British Crown. The failure of the United Irishmen to unite the country plunged Ireland into a bloodbath. And the lines were drawn between Catholic nationalists and Protestant loyalists that have haunted Ireland for two centuries...