Teribus re: Really? Irish Rebellions between 1798 and 1916 please?",

Just because there as no major outbreak of fighting does not mean the nationalist spirit was dead. It raised its head on quite a few occasions and will continue to do so. 1803 - Robert Emmet marches towards Dublin Caste with about 100 followers. - insignifican number I know but it happened. The same year (1803) Michael Dwyer surrende4ec and was transported to Australia, Dwyer and his men had been fighting a guerilla war in thw Wicklow mountains since 1798. again minor skirmishes but still fighting.
1819, Legislation is drafted to curb Rural Secret Societies ?. - no trouble as such but still organizing.
1823 - Daniel O'Connell forms the Catholic Association to agitate for emancipation ? so much for your anti-slavery theory.
1825- The House of Lords rejects a Bill granting Catholic Emancipation ?, ( see above note on slavery). 1828 - Daniel O'Connell wins the Clare by-electin but cannot enter Parliament because of the "Oath of Supremacy", this was overturned the following year, wasn't tat nice of them , to allow a duly elected official to take his seat, even though he was a catholic. Of course he was informed that as the repeal of the Act was not retrospective, he would have to run in another election, he won, unopposed.
Of course we also had a thing often referred to as a famine, that sort of put any thoughts of open rebellion on the back burner for a while.
1846 - this is a real beauty - Despite the famine, large quantities of grain are exported to pay rents of absentee landlords, - how does that little items grab you ?.
1848 - John Mitchell begins publishing the rebel newspaper : United Irishman". Also in 1848 the Government passes the Treason-Felony Act to deal with the Young Irelander movement , now aht do you think they were all about ?. 1856 - Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa founds the Phoenix Society
1858 James Stephens founds " The Irish Republican Brotrherhood".
1859 - The Fenians, an Irish-American group similar to the I.R.B is founded in New York
1860 The Irish Volunteers of teh Fighting 69th refuse to parade before the Prince of Wales, small act but still defiant.
1866, Some 800 fenians invade Canada, occupoy Fort Erie and retret across the border after a battle at Lime Ridgeway. again small but defiant
1867 The Fenian rising planned for March is betrayed, the arrest of the leaders in Manchester lead to an attempted rescue of Tomas Kelly, in which a policeman was killed, three irishmen - Allen, Larkin and O'Brien - The Manchester Martyrs paid the price for this.
1869 ' The Amnesty Association is formed after reports that fenian prisoners were being persecuted in prison. Teribus, I could go on and on but I hope the above will dispel ther notion that republicianism died after 1798 and was not reborn until 1916. I guarantee that with sufficient time and effort one could probably find at least one act of republicianism, either by word or deed in every year after '98 and many more in the years previous. The idea of one inited Ireland did not start in 1798 and has not ended to date. Pax Britannia my arse.