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)

Famous quotes containing the words irish and/or rebellion:

    “For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish or a German girl scrubbing floors in that home, a Welsh boy mining coal to keep the home-baked goodies warm, a black girl doing the family laundry, a black mother and child picking cotton to be made into clothes for the family, and a Jewish or an Italian daughter in a sweatshop making “ladies” dresses or artificial flowers for the family to purchase.”
    —Stephanie Coontz (20th century)

    “The rebellion is against time pollution, the feeling that the essence of what makes life worth living—the small moments, the special family getaways, the cookies in the oven, the weekend drives, the long dreamlike summers Mso much of this has been taken from us, or we have given it up. For what? Hitachi stereos? Club Med? Company cars? Racquetball? For fifteen-hour days and lousy day care?”
    —Richard Louv (20th century)