"Time to show those Brits who's boss! 🇮🇪💪☘️ #IrishRebellion #DownWithTheCrown" - John Edward Redmond
Jan 05, 1900 - Irish nationalist leader John Edward Redmond calls for revolt against British rule.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Redmond
Important document of the #religious schism.
Wiki-“the truth of many of its statements have been questioned and it became viewed as a partisan pamphlet rather than an historical treatise. Temple's #IrishRebellion was often praised by authors hostile to Roman #Catholicism, including #JohnMilton and #Voltaire. The Irish were so incensed against the book that one of the first resolutions of the Patriot Parliament of 1689 was to order it to be burnt by the … hangman.”
Today in Labor History February 21, 1797: In the wake of the French Revolution, 1,400 French soldiers invaded Britain to support the Society of United Irishmen in the Battle of Fishguard (Wales). A force of only 500 British reservists defeated them within two days. This was also the last time that a foreign army invaded Britain. 33 French soldiers died. The British captured another 1,360. In 1798, the United Irishmen instigated a republican insurrection, which failed. In December, 1796, the French had also tried to assist the United Irishmen, but failed to land a single ship due to terrible weather, losing 12 ships and 2,000 sailors in the process.
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