Download or read book The Causes of the Rebellion in Ireland Disclosed written by Anonymous and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-21 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Causes of the Rebellion in Ireland Disclosed by an anonymous author is about the Irish rebellion of 1798. The Irish Rebellion of 1798 was a major uprising against British rule in Ireland. The main organizing force was the Society of United Irishmen, a republican revolutionary group influenced by the ideas of the American and French revolutions. Excerpt: "It is always a bold undertaking in a private individual to become the advocate of a suffering people. It is peculiarly difficult at the present moment to be the advocate of the people of Ireland, because there are among them men who have taken the power of redress into their own hands and committed acts of outrage and rebellion which no sufferings could justify, and which can only tend to aggravate ten-fold the other calamities of their country. Deeply impressed, however, as I am with a conviction that these difficulties stand in my way, I shall yet venture to state to Englishmen the case of Ireland. In doing so, I rest not on vain confidence in my strength, but on the nature of the cause I plead..."