The Summer Soldiers: The 1798 Rebellion in Antrim and Down

by A.T.Q. Stewart

Book Overview

The story of the seven days, from 6 June 1798, when a coalition of idealistic Presbyterians and Catholics challenged the might of the Anglican establishment in Antrim and Down. It draws on contemporary diaries, letters and reports to present a history of the United Irishmen rising in the North.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0856405582
• ISBN13: 9780856405587
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Blackstaff Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

One mistey morning, the Irish lost their freadom

Step by step the planned revolution unfolds. The Irish, preparing pikes, organizing, and plotting betrayal against themselves.Treachery and battle. Summer soldiers is a sometines exausting account of the failed rebellion against the Ascendancy. This really is a minute to minute account of what happened. That is this books best quality. It's so detailed it's hard to really accept. But the footnotes are there, and they reveal not only a failed rebellion (that is still relevant to the IRA and the RUC) but the details of how mass planning under duress comes together....and falls apart.Essential for any student of Irish HIstory. Essential for anyone who needs to understand the rebelious masses. Essential to anyone interested in contemporary Irish politics.This was the event that created todays nightmare in Ireland.