Robert the Bruce won, despite defeats along the way, so he doesn't count.

But have we had the Boys of Wexford, Kelly the Boy from Milan(*), The Forty English Terrorists(**), Sean South of Garryowen(***), Feargus O'Connor, and Jeremiah Brandreth?

(*) That was how I heard it as a lad.

(**) Under new legislation, we can't refer to them as "martyrs".

(***) or Up-an'-Under, as it's known in t' Northern Union.