Select Bibliography of the 1798 Rebellion

  • [Anon.,] Paddy’s Resource [songs of United Irishmen issued in four major editions].
  • Adams, Jane, Memoir, ed. in T C Croker, Researches (1820)
  • Banim, Michael, The Croppy; A Tale of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 (London 1828; Dublin 1865).
  • Barrington, Jonah, The Rise and Fall of the Irish Nation (Paris: G. G. Bennis 1833).
  • Burdy, Samuel, History of Ireland from the Earliest Ages to the Union (1817)[final two chapters].
  • Burk, John Daly, History of the Late War in Ireland (Philadelphia:Bailey 1799).
Byrnes, Miles, Memoirs.
  • Campbell, Flann, The Dissenting Voice: Protestant Democracy in Ulster from the Plantation to Partition (Dublin: Blackstaff 1992).
  • Croker, Thomas Crofton, Researches in the South of Ireland, illustrative of the scenery, architectural remains, and the manners and superstitions of the peasantry (Lon: Murray 1820) [contains memoirs of Jane Adams and Gen. Holt].
  • Curtin, Nancy J., The United Irishmen: Popular Politics in Ulster and Dublin 1791-1798 (Clarendon Press 1994), 317pp.
  • Daunt, W. J. O’Neill, Personal Recollections of Daniel O’Connell (1848).
  • Dickson, Charles, The Wexford Rising in 1798: Its Causes and its course [1st edn. 1955] (London: Constable 1997), 273pp.
  • Dickson, Charles, Revolt of the North (1960).
  • Dickson, David, Dáire Keogh, and Kevin Whelan, eds., The United Irishmen: Republicanism, Radicalism, and Rebellion (Dub:Lilliput 1993), 378pp. [contains 22 papers].
  • Doyle, James Warren [JKL), Letters on the State of Ireland (1825).
  • Duigenan, Patrick, Impartial History of the late rebellion in Ireland (new ed. London n.d. [1802].

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  • Elliott, Marianne, ‘The Origins and Transformation of Early Irish Republicanism’, in International Review of Social History, Vol. XXIII, No. 3 (1978), pp.405-28).
  • Elliott, Marianne, Wolfe Tone: Prophet of Irish Independence (London & New Haven: Yale UP 1989; rep. London: Wylie [1997]).
  • Folley, Terence, Eyewitness to 1798 (Cork: Mercier [1997?]).
  • Gahan, Daniel, The People’s Rising: Wexford 1798 (Gill & Macmillan 1995), 367pp.
  • Gordon, James Bentley, History of the Rebellion in Ireland in 1798 (1801).
  • Hay, Edward, History of the Irish Insurrection of 1798 [new ed.] (Boston n.d.).
  • Hayes, Richard, The Last Invasion of Ireland, When Connaught Rose (MH Gill 1937).
  • Hewitt, Mark, The Year of the Revolution: Wolfe Tone and the United Irishmen (Socialist Worker 1998), 30pp.
  • Holt, General, Memoirs, edited in T. C. Croker, Researches in the South of Ireland (1820).
  • Jones, John, Impartial narrative of the most important engagement which took place between his majesty’s forces and the rebels, during the Irish rebellion, 1798, 2 parts (Dublin 1799).
  • Kavanagh, Rev. Patrick F[idelis], A Popular History of the Insurrection of 1798, derived from every available record and reliable tradition [Gill’s Shilling Ser.] [2nd edn.] (1874); Do. [4th edn., rev. & enl.] (Dublin: M. H. Gill 1884), xii, 283pp., 8º; Do. [Centenary Edn.] (Cork: Guy & Co., 1898), xvi, 344, 59pp., ill. [pls. & ports.]; other edns. in 1916 and 1920.
  • Kee, Robert, The Green Flag (1972) [in part]
  • Kelly, Liam, A Flame Now Quenched: Rebels and Frenchmen in Leitrim 1793-1798 (Dublin: Lilliput 1998), 156pp.
  • Keogh, Daire, The French Disease: The Catholic Church and Radicalism in Ireland 1790-1800 (Four Courts Press 1993).
  • Keogh, Daire and Nicholas Furlong, eds., The Mighty Wave: The 1798 Rebellion in Wexford [papers of Comoradh 1798 Conference and Byrne-Perry Summer School, 1995] (Four Courts Press 1996), 187pp. [papers of Comoradh 1798 Conference and Byrne-Perry Summer School, 1995] (Four Courts Press 1996) [keynote essay by Keven Whelan; others by Brian Cleary, Louis Cullen;
    Thomas Graham; Daniel Gahan; Thomas Bartlett; Anna
  • Kinsella; also the editors.].
  • Kavanagh, Fr. Patrick, The Insurrection of Ninety-eight (1898) [written by organiser of centenary in Wexford].

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  • Leadbeater, Mary, The Leadbeater Papers: The Annals of Ballitore (1862) [diary of the rebellion in two long chapters].
  • Lecky, W. E. H., History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century, ed. and abridged LP Curtis, Jr. (Chicago:Univ. Press 1972) [being vols. 5-8 of his History of England in the Eighteenth Century: 8 vols, 1878-90].
  • Lewis, George C., On Local Disturbances in Ireland (1836).
  • Madden, Richard Robert, The United Irishmen: their Lives and Times, 7 vols (1842-46; revised ed. in 4 vols, Dublin 1857-60).
  • Madden, Richard Robert, The Life andf Times of Robert Emmet ((Dub:Duffy 1847).
  • MacAstasney, Gerard, Leitrim and the Croppies 1776-1804 (Charick on Shannon Hidstrict Hist. Soc. 1998), 95pp.
  • McDowell, Robert B., Ireland in the age of imperialism and revolution 1760-1801 (Oxford:Clarendon 1979).
  • McHugh, Roger, ed., Autobiography of William Farrell: Carlow in ‘98 (Dublin 1949).
  • McDowell, R. B., ‘The Personnel of the Dublin society of United Irishmen’; in Irish Historical Studies, II, No. 5 (March 1940), pp.12-53.
  • Maxwell, W H, History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798 (Lon:Baily Bros. Cornhill 1845).
  • Moore, Thomas, Life of Lord Edward Fitzgerald (2 vols. 1831).
  • Musgrave, Richard, Memoirs of the Different Rebellions in Irelnd, from teh Arrival of the English: Also, a Particular Detail of That Which Broke Out the XXIIId of May, MDCCXCVIII; with the History of the Conspiracy which Preceded It and the Characters of the Principal Actors in It; to this Edition is Added, a Concise History of the Reformation of Ireland; and Considerations on the Means of Extending Its Advantages Therein (2nd ed. Dublin:Milliken 1801).
  • O’Kelly, P., General History of the Rebellion of 1798 (Dublin 1842) [acknowledged by Heaney in Door Into the Dark].
  • Ó Portéir, Cathal, ed., TheGreat Irish Rebellion of 1798 [Thomas Davis Lectures] (RTE Mercier 1998), 187pp.

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  • Pakenham, Thomas, The Year of Liberty: The Story of the Great Irish Rebellion of 1798 (London:Houghton & Stoddard 1969; Panther 1972).
  • Public Records Office of Northern íreland, the United Irishmen: Educ. Facs. 61-80 (MMSO 1974).
  • Smyth, Jim, Men of No Property: Irish Radicals and popular Politics in the late eighteenth century (Gill & Macmillan 1993).
  • Simms, S., A Select bibliography of the United Irishmen, Irish Historical Studies, 1, 158-80.
  • Stock, Bishop Joseph, A Narrative of What Passed at Killala .. during the French Invasion in the Summer of 1798 (1800) 182p. [MORRIS].
  • Stewart, A T Q, A Deeper Silence: The hidden Origins of the United Irishmen (Faber 1993).
  • Stewart, A. T. Q., The Summer Soldiers: The 1798 Rebellion in Antrim and Down (Belf:Blackstaff 1995).
  • McCullough, T[homas], Memoirs of the Right Hon. Richard Lalor Sheil (1856).
  • Tone, Theobald Wolfe, Life of Wolfe Tone (1826) [autobiography edited by his son].
  • Thuente, Mary Helen, The Harp Restrung: the United Irishmen and the rise of Irish Literary Nationalism (Syracuse UP 1994), 300pp. [literary and cultural dimension of UI movement of the 1790s.].
  • Trial of Billy Byrne of Ballymanus, The (Arklow: Dee-Jay Publ. 1996), 80pp. [rep. of 200 yr-old text].
  • Walsh, Helena [Mrs. Thomas Concannen, MA], Women of Ninety Eight (Dublin: Gill 1919, 2nd ed. 1920).
  • Weber, Paul, On the Road to Rebellion: The United Irishmen and Hamburg, 1792-1803 (Dublin: Four Courts 1997), 192pp.
  • Whelan, Kevin, The Tree of Liberty: Radicalism, Catholicism, and the construction of Irish Identity, 1760-1830 [Field Day] (Cork UP 1996), 236pp.
  • Whelan, Kevin, Fellowship of Freedom: The United Irishmen and 1798 (Cork UP 1998), 174pp.
  • Wyse, Thomas, Historical Sketches of the Late Catholic Association (1829).

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