STATE RESPONSE

• Espionage/intelligence

• New military forces (Yeomanry)

• Counter-terror - martial law, torture

REBELLION

• Kildare, Carlow - failure

• Wexford - success

• Antrim, Down - failure

• Humbert in Mayo

AFTERMATH

• Act of Union

• Major shift in political alignments

• Presbyterians and Anglicans form ‘Protestantism’, Unionism

• Catholics radicalised - form mass party in 1820s

EXAM

• 2 hours

• 4 questions

• 2 on Ireland in the 1790s

• One on tutorial documents (out of 2), one general (out of 3)

EXAM 2008-9

Tutorial• Against whom were the militia riots

of 1793 directed, and what were the fears of the rioters?

• How did William Farrell explain the defeat of the United Irish rebellion in Carlow?

EXAM 2009-10

Tutorial• What lay behind the outbreak of the

Armagh troubles in the mid-1780s?

• What was new about the Irish Militia riots of 1793?

EXAM 2008-9General• How did the United Irishmen as they were

before 1794 differ from how they were afterwards?

• What strategies did the state in Ireland have at its disposal in its campaign of counter-insurgency in 1796 and 1797?

• Why was the 1798 rebellion more successful in Co. Wexford than it was elsewhere?

EXAM 2009-10General

• What strategies were available to the United Irishmen in their efforts to bring about political change after they had been made an illegal organisation in 1794?

• How effective was the state’s campaign against the United Irishmen and Defenders in the 1790s?

• Can the rebellion of 1798 be described as a Catholic rebellion?