A Famous Irish Gate
October 3, 2010 by National Hibernian Digest
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In 1798, a union of Protestant and Catholic Irish, known as the United Irishmen, led an ill-fated rising against the Crown. One of the main fields of battle in that rising was Wexford. The courage of the Wexford men, armed with little more than scythes and pikes, fashioned by local blacksmiths to hook, stab and [...]
