The Great Irish Rebellion of 1798:History and Memory

作     者：Harry T.Dickinson 

作者机构：University of EdinburghUK 

出 版 物：《World History Studies》 (世界史研究（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2020年第7卷第1期

页      面：1-27页

学科分类：0202[经济学-应用经济学] 02[经济学] 020205[经济学-产业经济学] 

主　　题：Catholics Protestants United Irishmen Defenders French Revolution 

摘      要：The Irish rebellion of 1798 resulted in many casualties and much damage to *** historians have agreed that Irish society in the eighteenth century was bitterly divided between a governing minority of English Protestant settlers,a similar number of Scottish Presbyterian immigrants,who dominated the province of Ulster,and an oppressed majority of poor Catholics who were the original Celtic settlers of the country,but who had lost their lands and their political influence to these later *** historians,however,believe that the principal cause of the rebellion was the economic distress of the Catholic *** recently,many scholars have claimed that the leaders of the rebellion were educated Protestant English and Scottish settlers,who resented Britain’s political control of Ireland were greatly influenced by the political principles of the French Revolution of *** of these historians have also studied how the memory of the 1798 rebellion among Catholic Irishmen across the world eventually enabled the Catholic majority to create an Irish republic in the 1920s that was able to govern two-thirds of the country.