1798 Collection

Contemporary Accounts

• James Alexander,
  A succinct narrative of the rise and progress of the rebellion in the County of Wexford, especially in the vicinity of Ross. Dublin, 1800
   
• James B. Gordon,
  History of the Rebellion in 1798. London, 1801
   
• Charles Jackson,
  A narrative of the sufferings and escapes of Charles Jackson, late resident of Wexford in Ireland, including an account by way of journal of several barbarous atrocities in June 1798 by the Irish rebels. London, 1799
   
• Richard Musgrave,
  Memoirs of the Different Rebellions in Ireland. 4th ed., Steven W. Myers & Delores McKnight (eds.). Indiana, USA. Round Tower Books, 1995.
   
• George Taylor,
  A history of the rise, progress, cruelties and suppression of the rebellion in the County of Wexford, in the year of 1798, to which is annexed the author’s account of his captivity and merciful deliverance. 3rd ed. Dublin. William Curry Jun. & Co., 1829

Participant Accounts

• Miles Byrne,
  Memoirs of Miles Byrne, Vols. 1 & 2. Dublin. Maunsell & Co., 1907
   
• Thomas Cloney,
  A personal narrative of those transactions in the County Wexford, in which the author was engaged during the awful period of 1798. Dublin. James McMullen, 1832
   
• Edward Hay,
  History of the insurrection of the County of Wexford A.D.1798. Dublin. 1803

19th Century Accounts

• Patrick J. Kavanagh,
  A Popular History of the Insurrection of 1798. 1st ed. Dublin. 1874. Later editions in 1884, 1898, 1913, 1916, 1918, 1920, 1923 and 1928.
   
• William Maxwell,
  History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798. 6th ed. London. H. G. Bohn, 1864. Illustrations by George Cruikshank.

20th Century Accounts

• Charles Dickson, The Wexford Rising in 1798. Tralee, Co. Kerry. Kerryman, undated
   
• Thomas Pakenham,
  The Year of Liberty. London. Hodder & Stoughton, 1969
   
• H. F. B. Wheeler & A.M. Broadley,
  The War in Wexford: an account of the rebellion in the south of Ireland in 1798. London. John Lane/The Bodley Head, 1910

Biographical

• Nicholas Furlong,
  Fr. John Murphy of Boolavogue 1753-1798. Dublin. Geography Pubs., 1991 ISBN : 0 906602 18 1
   
• Margaret Whelan,
  Edward Hay (1761 - 1826), styled Mr. Secretary Hay: Catholic Politics 1792-1822. 1991 (Thesis)

Recent Research

• David Dickson, Daire Keogh & Kevin Whelan (eds.),
  The United Irishmen: republicanism, radicalism and rebellion. Dublin. Lilliput Press, 1993
  ISBN : 1 874675 19 8
   
• Daniel Gahan,
  The People’s Rising: Wexford 1798. Dublin. Gill & MacMillan, 1995.
  ISBN: 07171 2323 5
   
• Daniel Gahan,
  Rebellion! Ireland in 1798. Dublin/Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford. O’Brien Press/Comoradh ’98, 1997
  ISBN : 0 862785 41 3 (hbk) and 1998: 086278 548 0 (pbk)
   
• Daire Keogh and Nicholas Furlong (eds.),
  The Women of 1798. Dublin. Four Courts Press, 1998 ISBN : 1 85152 359 X
   
• Ruan O’Donnell,
  The Rebellion in Wicklow in 1798. Dublin. Irish Academic Press, 1998
   
• Richard Roche,
  Here’s Their Memory: a Record of the United Irish in Wexford in 1798. Wexford. Wexford Branch, National Graves Association, 1997
   
• Kevin Whelan,
  The Tree of Liberty: Radicalism, Catholicism and the Construction of Irish Identity, 1760-1830. Cork. Cork University Press, 1996
  ISBN : 1 859218 060 4

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