Part one of a two-volume biography on Robert Emmet, one of the best known but least understood figures in Irish history. The author draws on significant new research to establish the correct relationship between the pivotal events of 1798 and 1803 in which Emmet played a significant role.

Part one of a two-volume biography on Robert Emmet, one of the best known but least understood figures in Irish history. The author draws on significant new research to establish the correct relationship between the pivotal events of 1798 and 1803 in which Emmet played a significant role.

The People's Rising is already established as the definitive account of Wexford in 1798. The story of this tragic and heroic episode in Irish history, in which as many as 30,000 people may have died, is told with authority, passion and attention to detail.

This is the story of Michael Dwyer, Hugh Vesty Byrne, Martin Burke, Arthur Devlin and John Mernagh.

Now available for the first time in trade paperback: the newly revised, definitive account of the most important event in Irish history--the rebellion of 1798. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Originally published in the 1950s, this book is an examination of the 1798 Wexford Rising. It explores the various struggles of the Rising, including Catholic against Protestant, people against establishment, Irish cause and English repression, courage and idealism, faction and betrayal, and brutality and military incompetence.

No aspect of the 1798 rebellion has been so neglected as that of the women's role in the tumult of that year. This book brings new light to the subject and creates an accurate account of the women in 1798. It presents the women in their many roles, including observer, victim, activist, and combatant in a political cause. -- Publisher description.