Mark MaguireApr 23, 2024
Actually walked through Croppy’s Acre today. I pass by it all the time but I never actually walked from the museum side through to the quays. #TombTuesday #TheIrishRebellionOf1798 #1798Rebellion #CroppysAcre #CroppyBoys #MassGrave #Monument #MemorialPark #Mastodaoine #YearOfTheFrench
Mark MaguireJul 12, 2023
Tulach a’ tSolais 1798 Monument
#OulartHill #Wexford #Ireland #Mastodaoine #1798Rising #Monument #Memorial #MichaelWarren #RonaldTallon #Architecture #Mound #Sculpture #YearOfTheFrench #UnitedIrishmen
Mark MaguireJul 12, 2023
Tulach a’ tSolais 1798 Monument
#OulartHill #Wexford #Ireland #Mastodaoine #1798Rising #Monument #Memorial #MichaelWarren #RonaldTallon #Architecture #Mound #Sculpture #YearOfTheFrench #UnitedIrishmen
Show threadIrish PhilosophyJan 5, 2023

Two more #1798Rising #YearOfTheFrench tweet and a connection to #IrishPhilosophy: #MariaEdgeworth was in Longford at the time of Humbert's invasion.

https://books.google.ie/books?id=q6RWAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA365&lpg=PA365

Chapter VIII covers her experience, including the unexpected saving of their house due to a rebel's gratitude to the housekeeper (pp. 370-1), her father accused of conspiring with the French (pp. 374-5) and an appearance by Sarrazin (p. 376) captured after French defeat at Ballynamuck near Granard #Longford.

Memoirs of R. L. E. ... begun by himself, and concluded by his daughter, M. Edgeworth

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