Tag: 1798 Rebellion

• Biddy’s – No Greater Love

  

  A Tale of the ’98 Rebellion Adoption of a child is not a new creation in Ireland, for the Irish peasant was known for the care that they would take of others in difficulty, even if not in their community. Considering all that happened to the Irish peasantry, this comment may come as a great […]

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  June 25, 2021

  Factual, Fiction, History, Ireland, Short Story, Update

  1798 Rebellion, Adoption, Execution, Ireland, Prisoner, Tradition

• Bodenstown

  

  Bodenstown is located near Sallins in County Kildare and it is in the local cemetery there that Theobald Wolfe Tone was buried in 1798, after he had cut his own throat because he was told that he would not be granted the honourable execution normally given to soldiers. But, since that time, this site in […]

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  March 5, 2021

  Essay, Factual, History, Ireland, Update

  1798 Rebellion, Bodenstown, Execution, Grave, Ireland, United Irishmen, Wolfe Tone