. A popular history of the insurrection of 1798: derived from every available record and reliable tradition. resistless tide. Nor dared King Georges veteran troops their onset fierce to bide. But left a passage open wide before their gallant foe, As with their green flag flying towards Wexford town they go. And sure no men in any land eer waged a braver bore themselves more valiantly in struggling for the Right;Nor from the English foemen just praise shall we withhold,For Englishmen are stubborn foes, and cast in warlike mould ;But pity tis that freeborn men should strike fair freedom
. A popular history of the insurrection of 1798: derived from every available record and reliable tradition. resistless tide. Nor dared King Georges veteran troops their onset fierce to bide. But left a passage open wide before their gallant foe, As with their green flag flying towards Wexford town they go. And sure no men in any land eer waged a braver bore themselves more valiantly in struggling for the Right;Nor from the English foemen just praise shall we withhold,For Englishmen are stubborn foes, and cast in warlike mould ;But pity tis that freeborn men should strike fair freedom down,And shed their blood in guilty strife for any King or Crown. P. F. Street, Cork, May 26, 1S97. DATE DUE DEC 15 1:592 B6^ / K --»** i^fH 5^ee^ DEC U 8 2005 DK 1 8 ^^-f^i^i- ^t. uf UNIVERSITY PRODUCTS, INC. #859-5503 BOSTON COLLEGE 3 9031 0 587334 2 \?2-G 7^-^^ DA 949 .K2:l. Copy 2I \ B V B n a si h y r- a t r i c k F <. A popular hi storey of theinsurrection of t Boston CollegeLibraries Chestnut Hill, Mass. 02167 i;, . .1. Eev. Father Kavanagh. ,^^ / j^A POPULAR HISTORY OF THE INSURRECTION OF 1798: DERIVED FROM EVERY AVAILABLE RECORD ANDRELIABLE TRADITION BY THE REV. PATRICK F. KAVANAGH The Tribunes tongue and Poets penMust sow the seed in slavish men;Bui tis the soldiers sword aloneCan reap the harvest when tis grown. DUBLIN M. H. GILL & SON, LTD., 1918 BOSTON COLLEGE LIBRARYCHESTNUT HILL, MASS. M. H. GILL & SON, LmDUBLIN Atib WATEHFORD THIS EDITION OF THE HISTORY OF 98 IS DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR yo ALL IRISHMEN AT HOME AND ABROAD WHO LOVE THEIR NATIVE LAND. r. F. KAVANAGH, 1826 PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION THE story of the brief, but fierce and gallantstruggle made by the Patriots of 98 cannot butprove deeply interesting to their descendants. Theheroic men who took part therein have, indeed, passedaway to that happier country where the tears of theoppressed are dried—where might is no longer the enemyof right, where no tr}^ant thre
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