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Place: Éire (Republic of Ireland) X
Key Topics: nationalism X
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Michael Collins was among the most important Irish republican military and political leaders in the struggle ...
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James Connolly was an Irish labor organizer and socialist, and a leader of the 1916 Easter Rising . ...
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Michael Davitt was a revolutionary and politician active in several Irish nationalist organizations. ...
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Eamon de Valera, the highest-ranking survivor of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland, played a leading ...
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Easter Rising and the Irish Civil War
The Easter Rising in 1916 began a period of conflict and turmoil in Ireland that did not end until 1923, ...
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Emmet, Robert (1778–1803) and Emmet's Rebellion
Robert Emmet was born in Dublin in 1778, into a family that was a solid pillar of the Dublin elite. Young ...
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The Fenian movement – revolutionary secret societies dedicated to gaining independence for Ireland – ...
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Fitzgerald, Lord Edward (1763–1798)
Lord Edward Fitzgerald was born on October 15, 1763 into the highest level of the Irish aristocracy. ...
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Ireland, Age of Revolutions, 1775–1803
In her study of eighteenth-century Ireland, Edith Mary Johnston (1974) employs an elegant aphorism to ...
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Ireland, Great Rebellion, 1798
In 1798 a long-anticipated rebellion burst forth in Ireland, releasing the repressed fury that had accumulated ...
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