The 1798 Rebellion

and
The Union of Britain and Ireland
The United Irishmen
• The United Irishmen consisted of different groups.
• All dislike the way Ireland was Rule.
• Presbyterian Protestants( located mostly in Ulster) dislike the
Penal laws.
• Presbyterian invited Theobald Wolfe Tone to Ulster and 1791 the
United Irishmen was established.
• Catholics also dislike the Penal laws; for example, they could not
own a hose valued above £ 5.
Tone become famous
• Tone believed the penal was kept the Irish divided.
• In August 1791 he published a pamphlet.
• Tone become famous and popular
• They demanded the ending of the penal laws and reform
of the Irish parliament in Dublin.
• They also wanted the Dublin parliament to able to pass
laws free from English interference.
Inspire of the American Revolution and French
Revolution
• The United Irishmen saw themselves as defending liberty
and ending corrupt government.
• Many of them were inspired by the success and idea of
American Revolution and French Revolution.
• United Irishmen had some successes such as in 1792, when
Catholic were allowed to become lawyer.
Anglo French War( 1792)
• In 1792, Britain was at war with the new revolutionary
government in France.
• The English government was frightened by new radial
idea such as liberty for all.
• Men like Tone were viewed as being dangerous traitors.
• The government tightened their control over Ulster.
• Tone had connections with the new French government.
• Tone stopped being a reform and became a
revolutionary.
Started the Rebellion
• He first went to America and then France where he
gained support for an Irish rebellion.
• In 1796, he joined a French invasion fleet of Ireland.
• In 1798, the British increased their clampdown on the
whole of Ireland.
• This result in Rebellion across Ireland.
• Most serious fighting took place in Ulster.
• Tone appealed for French support but not enough and
the rebellion failed.
• Tone was captured by the British and he killed himself
in jail.
Prime Minister William Pitt and Act Of Union
• The British Prime Minister William Pitt decided that
Ireland needed to be ruled directly from London.
• He was prepared to allowed Catholic to sit in
Parliament in England if they accepted Act of Union
• In 1801, The Act of Union was passed.
• The Act allowed 100MPs and 32 lords to sit in the
Westminster Parliament