“The Rebels executing their prisoners on the Bridge at Wexford”. Illustration by George Cruikshank. A massacre in which United Irishmen piked to death an estimated 100 Loyalists during the 1798 Irish Rebellion. From History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798; with Memoirs of the Union, and Emmett’s Insurrection in 1803 by Maxwell. Published in London 1854.

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