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Seventeen ninety-eight saw French and American revolutionary ideals converge with popular rebellion in Ireland. The rebellion ended in bloody failure, but 1798 was kept alive in folk memory by a nascent literature added to by succeeding generations of nationalists and cultural revivalists.
This wide-ranging gathering of prose, poetry and song mirrors both sides of that conflict, orange and green, imperial and republican, from the early idealism of the 1782 Dungannon Convention to the final snuffing out of resistance in Wicklow in 1803. Here are the legendary ballads and verse accounts of the rebellion, familiar and little known, ranging from those by anonymous balladeers to works by John Keegan Casey, P. J. McCall, Thomas Moore, Thomas Davis, Alice Milligan, William Drennan, William Rooney and Ethna Carbery. These are supplemented by prose accounts by Theobald Wolfe Tone, Charles Teeling, Robert Emmet, Jonah Barrington and Maria Edgeworth, and folk narratives from the archive of the Irish Folklore Department at UCD.

The Wearing Of The Green by Dion Boucicault
The Rising Of The Moon by John Keegan Casey
The Union by Sliabh Cuilinn
The Dungannon Convention (1782) by Thomas Osborne Davis
Tone's Grave by Thomas Osborne Davis
The Wake Of William Orr by William Drennan
Arbour Hill by Robert Emmet
Young Wolfe Tone by Felimy Fidileir
The Priests Of '98 by J. M. Furlong
Twenty Men From Dublin Town by Arthur Griffith
The Memory Of The Dead by John Kells Ingram
The Boys Of Wexford by Robert Dwyer Joyce
The Wind That Shakes The Barley by Robert Dwyer Joyce
The Battle Of Vinegar Hill by Patrick F. Kavanagh
The Patriot Mother by Eva Mary Kelly
Rody Mccorley by Anna Johnston Macmanus
Bold Robert Emmet by Thomas Maguire
The Croppy Boy: (a Ballad Of '98) by William B. Mcburney
Boolavogue by Patrick Joseph Mccall
Kelly Of Killanne by Patrick Joseph Mccall
The Independent Irish Parliament by Denis Florence Mccarthy
Bodenstown by Maeve Cavanagh Mcdowell
Wolfe Tone by Alice Milligan
De Groves Of De Pool by Richard Alfred Milliken
Forget Not The Field by Thomas Moore
Lament For Grattan by Thomas Moore
O, Breathe Not His Name! by Thomas Moore
She Is Far From The Land by Thomas Moore
A Song Of The North by Brian O'higgins
A Song Of Tone by Brian O'higgins
Donegore Hill by James Orr
The Three Flowers by Norman G. Reddin
The Mountain Men by William Rooney
The Priest Of Addergool by William Rooney
Michael Dwyer (2) by Timothy Daniel (donill) Sullivan
The Battle Of Ovidstown by Anonymous
Bessie Grey by Anonymous
Billy Byrne Of Ballymanus by Anonymous
The Bold Belfast Shoemaker by Anonymous
The Boys Of Croghan by Anonymous
By Memory Inspired by Anonymous
Croppies Lie Down by Anonymous
The Croppy Boy by Anonymous
Dunlavin Green by Anonymous
The Dying Soldier by Anonymous
Edward by Anonymous
Father Murphy by Anonymous
General Munroe by Anonymous
General Wonder In Our Land by Anonymous
Henry Joy Mccracken by Anonymous
The Lamentations Of Patrick Brady, Or, The Heroes Of Ninety-eight by Anonymous
The Liberty Tree by Anonymous
Me And You by Anonymous
The Men Of Ninety-eight by Anonymous
Michael Boylan by Anonymous
The Orange Lilly by Anonymous
The Orange Yeomanry Of '98 by Anonymous
The Patriot Maid by Anonymous
Rathangan's Edward Molloy by Anonymous
The Rebellion Of 1798 by Anonymous
The Rights Of Man by Anonymous
Rody Mccorley by Anonymous
Rouse Hibernians by Anonymous
The Sean-bhean Bhocht by Anonymous
The Song Of Prosperous by Anonymous
Sweet County Wexford by Anonymous
The Swinish Multitude by Anonymous
The Tree Of Liberty by Anonymous
Weep! Gallia Weep! by Anonymous
The Man From God Knows Where by Florence Wilson
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®