The French invasion of Ireland in '98 Leaves of unwritten history that tell of an heroic endeavor and a lost opportunity to throw off England's yoke . ng month of May be heldas hostages for the French officers of whatever 1 See Appendix for the letter in full. OF IRELAND IN gS. l43 descent that had fallen intp the hands of the en-emy. He referred more particularly to the prison-ers captured on October 12th of the same year,when a French fleet, destined to renew Humbertsattempt on Ireland, succumbed to a superior navalforce off Lough Swilly. The Directory, however,in view of the disproportion b
The French invasion of Ireland in '98 Leaves of unwritten history that tell of an heroic endeavor and a lost opportunity to throw off England's yoke . ng month of May be heldas hostages for the French officers of whatever 1 See Appendix for the letter in full. OF IRELAND IN gS. l43 descent that had fallen intp the hands of the en-emy. He referred more particularly to the prison-ers captured on October 12th of the same year,when a French fleet, destined to renew Humbertsattempt on Ireland, succumbed to a superior navalforce off Lough Swilly. The Directory, however,in view of the disproportion between the numbersof prisoners in the hands of France and England—the balance being much in favor of the latter—feltthemselves powerless to act, and thus TheobaldWolfe Tone, who accompanied the fourth expedi-tion, fell a victim to the same relentless power thathad destroyed his brother. CHAPTER VIII. A Second Battle of Castlebar—Defeat of the Insurgents—The ThreeFrench Officers left at Killala—Their Efforts to suppress Relig-ious Persecution—Riot and Lawlessness the Order of the Day—Advance of the Royal Armies—Battle of HILE effectually disposingof Humberts Army ofIreland, the surrender ofBallinamuck did not endthe era of bloodshed in theunfortunate province of Con-naught. Undismayed by thereverses of their would-bedeliverers, the rebels scattered alongthe line of the River Moy fromKillala to Foxford maintained their defiant atti-tude. More than that, barely three days after thesurrender, 2,000 of them left Ballina under theleadership of Major OKeon and Patrick Barrett,a former member of the local militia, for the pur-pose of retaking the town of Castlebar, which, asstated, had fallen into the hands of the Britishafter Humberts withdrawal. FRENCH INVASION OF IRELAND. 145 In the early dawn of September 12th two citi-zens of the town, Edward Mayley and John Dud-geon, while stationed as pickets in the northernsuburb, heard the thud of horses hoofs approac
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