Description
This book is a republished and updated edition of the bestselling book, Fr John Murphy of Boolavogue 1753-1798 by Nicholas Furlong, first published thirty years ago (1991). It makes the complex events of the 1798 Rebellion accessible to everyone with an interest in the history of Ireland and in an event which cost an estimated 30,000 lives. There are specially executed maps of the Rebellion in Wexford, Carlow, Kilkenny and Wicklow and the European theatre of conflict, 100 more pages than the previous edition and 114 photographs that include the site of Fr Murphy’s homestead, Vinegar Hill and other battle sites of the Rebellion, the rebel leaders and the leaders of the English Crown forces, and monuments and commemorations in 1938, 1948 and 1998.
