1. 16 Ireland in the Age of Revolutions
Political Change: Revolutionary Movements
16 Ireland in the Age of Revolutions
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
At the end of this chapter you should understand ...
The causes of the Rising of 1798.
The Role of Wolfe Tone.
The results of the Rising of 1798.

2. Ireland in the Age of Revolutions
The Power of
the Protestant Ascendancy
Catholic and Presbyterian Discontent
Causes of
the 1798
Rising
Poverty in the Countryside
The Fall of the Bastille
The Influence of the American and French Revolutions

3. How did Tone become involved in revolutionary activities?
Wolfe Tone
Tone
Founding of United Irishmen
Tone and Catholic grievances
The Influence of War
Tone seeks French help
How did Tone become involved in revolutionary activities?

4. The Rising of 1798 Government response Leaders arrested Death penalty
Wide powers of arrest, search and imprisonment
General Lake in Ulster and Leinster
Leaders arrested
Spies
Lord Edward Fitzgerald

5. The Rising of 1798 4 main areas
Around Dublin, Kildare, Meath – mail coaches
Ulster
Connacht – French invasion
Wexford
Tone
captured
4 main areas
The Rising of 1798

6. Act of Union Deaths The Rising of 1798 – Results Rebellion of
Divisions between Catholics and Protestants
Tone – Father
of Irish Republicanism
Act of Union
The Results
of the
1798 Rising
Rebellion of
1803
Dublin’s decline

7. Stronger government forces
The Rising of 1798 – Results
Poor organisation
Stronger government forces
Why did the
Rising fail?
Insufficient
French help
Spies

8. WOLFE TONE, IRISH REVOLUTIONARY
FOCUS TASK
Summarise
Draw up a table in a page of your copybook with the heading ‘Wolfe Tone, Irish Revolutionary’. Fill in the information in short note form opposite each of the categories.
WOLFE TONE, IRISH REVOLUTIONARY
Background (brief)
Founding of United Irishmen
Revolutionary ideas
To America and France
French help
Bantry Bay
Capture and death
Influence
Jupiter
Jupiter