With Dreadful Slaughter: A Military History of the United Irishmen's Rebellion, 1798

The events of the 1798 Rebellion are still very much all around us. In many ways, the Rebellion, its campaign and aftermath, set the tone for political relations on the island of Ireland for centuries to come. It has been seen as a formative event in the creation of the Irish Republic and has been used as a ‘rallying cry’ within nationalism – and a ‘cautionary tale’ within unionism – ever since.

Yet, it was so much more than this. It was a seemingly localised insurrection, but it came at a p...