The Irish Story Top 10 Articles of 2014
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Did Captain Rock spring from the Hedge Schools? – Popular education and militant politics in 1820s Ireland
Maeve Casserly looks at the links between the ‘hedge schools’ and the rebellion of ‘Captain Rock’ in the 1820s. Between 1821 …
Robert Emmet, the 1803 Proclamation of Independence and the ghost of 1798
Maeve Casserly examines the thinking of Robert Emmet, architect of the 1803 rebellion. In 1803 in Dublin, Robert Emmet and a small …