9. Find out when the following events took place and put them in chronological order on a timeline in your copy, starting with the earliest.
• French fl eet in Bantry Bay • The founding of the United Irishmen • Battle of Vinegar Hill • Arrest of Lord Edward FitzGerald • Arrest of William Jackson • The Act of Union
• General Lake in Ulster • Capture of Enniscorthy • French troops land in Mayo • Catholics get the vote • Publication of Tone’s pamphlet
10. Copy out the table below, and then sort each event and topic into its correct column. • The French Revolution • Battle of Vinegar Hill • Founding of the United Irishmen • Growth of sectarianism • The Penal Laws • Irish Republican rebellions in 1803 and 1848
Causes of the Rebellion Course of the Rebellion
• Atrocities in Wexford • French navy in Lough Swilly • General Lake’s campaign of terror • Battle of Ballynahinch • Act of Union • Decline of Dublin
Consequences of the Rebellion
Exploring History
1. Write an account of the life of Theobald Wolfe Tone under the following headings: • Early life • Founding the United Irishmen • Time in France
• 1798 Rebellion and death • Legacy
2. Look at the list of reasons for the failure of the 1798 Rebellion on page 202. Write an account of the failure, backing up each reason with an example.
KEY TERMS Protestant Ascendancy Penal Laws
Dissenters the wealthy land-owning Church of Ireland minority
laws that discriminated against Catholics and were designed to keep them poor and powerless
Irish Presbyterians, who ‘dissented’ from the offi cial Protestant Church of Ireland
Physical force nationalism the willingness of nationalists to use violence to fi ght for Irish independence from Britain
Sectarianism
Go to page 84 of your Sources and Skills Book for more exercises.
confl ict and hatred based on a religious divide
Go to page 37 of your Research Portfolio for a task based on this chapter.
