Irish Republic (1798)
Irish Republic | |||||||||
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1798 | |||||||||
Motto: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, Union | |||||||||
Government Presidential federal republic | | ||||||||
President | |||||||||
• 1798 | John Moore | ||||||||
Historical era | French Revolutionary Wars | ||||||||
• Arrival of French forces | 22 August 1798 | ||||||||
• Appointment of John Moore as president | 31 August 1798 | ||||||||
23 September 1798 | |||||||||
Currency | Irish pound | ||||||||
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Today part of | Ireland |
The Irish Republic of 1798, more commonly known as the Republic of Connacht, was a short-lived state proclaimed during the
Proclamation
At the time of the Rebellion of 1798 a force of 1,000 French soldiers under General Jean Joseph Amable Humbert landed at Killala in County Mayo. General Humbert proclaimed the Irish Republic in his declaration to the people upon landing in Ireland on 22 August 1798:
LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY, UNION, After several unsuccessful attempts, behold at last Frenchmen arrived amongst you... Union, Liberty, the Irish Republic! Such is our shout. Let us march. Our hearts are devoted to you; our glory is in your happiness.
After the nascent Republic's victory at the
Army Of IrelandLiberty, Equality
Head quarters at Castlebar, 14th Fructidor, sixth Year of the French Republic, One and Indivisible.
General Humbert, Commander in Chief of the Army of Ireland, desirous of organising with the least possible delay, an administrative power for the Province of Connaught, decrees as follows:
- The Government of the Province of Connaught shall reside at Castlebar till further orders.
- The Government shall be composed of twelve members, who shall be named by the General-in-chief of the French Army.
- Citizen JOHN MOORE is named President of the Government of the Province of Connaught, he is specially entrusted with the nomination and reunion of the members of the Government.
- The Government shall occupy itself immediately in organising the Military power of the Province of Connaught, and with providing subsistence for the French and Irish Armies.
- There shall be organised eight regiments of infantry, each of twelve hundred men, and four regiments of cavalry, each of six hundred men.
- The Government shall declare rebels and traitors to the country all those who having received clothing and arms, shall not join the army within four and twenty hours.
- Every individual from sixteen years of age to forty, inclusive, is REQUIRED in the name of the Irish Republic, to betake himself instantly to the French Camp, to march in a mass against the common enemy, the government of Ireland - the English; whose destruction alone can establish the independence and happiness of ANCIENT HIBERNIA.
— General Humbert, Commanding-in-Chief
The rebel republic was a
Defeat
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On 8 September 1798, just weeks after its proclamation, the republic collapsed after the
References
- ^ A collection of state papers relative to the war against France now carrying on by Great Britain and the several other European Powers, vol. VII, London: J Debrett, 1799, p. 361, retrieved 28 December 2018
- ^ "Ross, Charles (Ed), Correspondence of Charles, First Marquis Cornwalis, John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1859". 1859. Archived from the original on 16 April 2018. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
- ^ Pittock 2006, p. 210.
- ^ a b c Aston 2002, p. 222.
- ISBN 9780299218249.
Bibliography
- Aston, Nigel (2002). Christianity and Revolutionary Europe, 1750–1830. Cambridge university Press. ISBN 9780521465922.
- ISBN 9780521030274.