Irish Rebellion

Irish Rebellion may refer to:

  • The Irish Bruce Wars 1315–1318, an attempt by members of the O'Neill clan backed by a Scottish and Irish army to make Edward Bruce the High King of Ireland. They were supported by Edward's older brother, Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland.
  • The Geraldine Rebellion (1534) and the FitzGerald Rebellion against Henry VIII of England 1535 to 1537, having to do with who was supreme head of the church
  • The Desmond Rebellions, which occurred in the 1560s, 1570s and 1580s in Munster
  • Tyrone's Rebellion (also known as the Nine Years' War (Ireland) from 1594 to 1603, predominantly in Ulster
  • O'Doherty's Rebellion, 1607
  • The Irish Rebellion of 1641, a conflict between the Roman Catholic native Gaelic-Irish and Hiberno-Normans, and Protestant settlers
  • The Irish Rebellion of 1798, a republican uprising against British rule of Ireland
  • The United Irish Uprising of 1800, an uprising against British rule of Newfoundland
  • The 1803 Irish rebellion led by Robert Emmet
  • The Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848, also called The Famine Rebellion of 1848
  • The Fenian Rising of 1867
  • The Easter Rising of 1916, a nationalist uprising against British rule of Ireland
  • The Irish War of Independence (1919–1921), a guerrilla war between the original Irish Republican Army and the British administration in Ireland, resulting in the creation of the Irish Free State, now known as the Republic of Ireland
  • The S-Plan or Sabotage Campaign (IRA) (1939–1940)
  • Northern Campaign (IRA) (1942–1944)
  • The Border Campaign (IRA) (1956–1962)
  • The Troubles (1968–1998)

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