Ireland
- Cornelius Grogan (1798) - Hanged and beheaded in Wexford for taking part in the Irish rebellion of 1798
- John Henry Colclough (1798) - Hanged and beheaded in Wexford for taking part in the Irish rebellion of 1798
- Bagenal Beauchamp Harvey (1798) - Hanged and beheaded in Wexford for taking part in the Irish rebellion of 1798
- John Kelly (1798) - Hanged and beheaded in Wexford for taking part in the Irish rebellion of 1798
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“Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland ...”
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“Come, fix upon me that accusing eye.
I thirst for accusation. All that was sung.
All that was said in Ireland is a lie
Breed out of the contagion of the throng,
Saving the rhyme rats hear before they die.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)