#OnThisDay 1915 Patrick Pearse gave his famous oration at the graveside of the Fenian Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa. ‘They have left us our Fenian dead, and while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace.’
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1848 The Young Irelander Rebellion
#OnThisDay 1848 The Young Irelander Revolt broke out. Lead by William Smith O’Brien, T. F. Meagher & others, the rebels surrounded the RIC in a widow’s house for several hours but dispersed when RIC reinforcements arrived.
The leaders (pictured below in Kilmainham Gaol) were deported to Tasmania.
1693 Patrick Sarsfield fatally wounded at Battle of Landen
#OnThisDay 1693 at the Battle of Landen, Patrick Sarsfield, 1st Earl of Lucan & Jacobite hero of the Williamite War was fatally wounded. He would die several days later. His last words were supposedly “Oh that this was for Ireland”.
1864 The Battle of Atlanta, Georgia
#OnThisDay 1864 At the Battle of Atlanta, two Cork men fight it out over the city. The one-armed Brigadier General Thomas Sweeny (Left) of the Union Army vs Major General Patrick Cleburne (Right) of the Confederate Army. The Union army won & besieged Atlanta till September. #Ireland #History
1616 Hugh O’Neill, the Earl of Tyrone dies in Rome
#OnThisDay 1616 Hugh O’Neill the Earl of Tyrone died in Rome. His fight against the English Crown during the Nine Years War was all but lost at the Battle of Kinsale in 1601. He left Ireland at the ‘Flight of the Earls’, hoping to return to Ireland with an army. #Ireland #History
The Irish at War 