15) sum up 2010 11
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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?
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