History of the Irish rebellion in 1798 : with memoirs of the union, and Emmett's insurrection in 1803 . IRISH REBELLION. 71 CHAPTER VII. ATTACK ON NAAS—ANECDOTES OF THE ACTION—INSURRECTION IN KILDARE—REBELS DEFEATED AT CARLOW— AMNESTY TO THE INSURGENTS—DUFfsAFFAIR ON THE CURRAGH—STATE OF THE CAPITAL—PARTIAL DISAFFECTIONIN THE YEOMANRY — ROMAN CATHOLIC DECLARATION — BATTLE OF TARA —A REBEL HEROINE. If one can imagine such a thing as a tableau, or birds-eye view ofthe rebellion from the 23rd to the 30th of May, the appearance itwould present would be this. Seven or eight comparatively minor ex-p
History of the Irish rebellion in 1798 : with memoirs of the union, and Emmett's insurrection in 1803 . IRISH REBELLION. 71 CHAPTER VII. ATTACK ON NAAS—ANECDOTES OF THE ACTION—INSURRECTION IN KILDARE—REBELS DEFEATED AT CARLOW— AMNESTY TO THE INSURGENTS—DUFfsAFFAIR ON THE CURRAGH—STATE OF THE CAPITAL—PARTIAL DISAFFECTIONIN THE YEOMANRY — ROMAN CATHOLIC DECLARATION — BATTLE OF TARA —A REBEL HEROINE. If one can imagine such a thing as a tableau, or birds-eye view ofthe rebellion from the 23rd to the 30th of May, the appearance itwould present would be this. Seven or eight comparatively minor ex-plosions, lighting up the atmosphere for a short space and then goinggradually out, viz. one in Meath (Tara), one in Wicklow (Mount Ken-nedy), a good blaze in Carlow, and four or five in Kildare, which itsbeing Lord Edwards own county accounts for—these were Naas,Prosperous-, Kilcullcn, and Rathangan. The eye should then be drawnto the mighty and absorbing eruption of Wexford—and taking VinegarHill as its crater, it would observe two streams of lava pouringforth, one due west
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