Napoleon Series Archive 2018

Re: Identity in the Irish Militia, 1793‐1802

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A ‘Fair Chance’? The Catholic Irish Brigade in the British Service, 1793–1798
Ciarán McDonnell
War in History, vol. 23, 2: pp. 150-168.

The Irish Brigade in the British service, formed in the 1790s, was composed of Irish Catholic soldiers, who had recently regained official permission to serve in the British armed forces, and Franco-Irish émigré officers. The British government believed that the brigade offered Catholics a ‘fair chance’ to participate in the armed forces, but the reality was quite different. This paper examines the brigade’s origins, difficult formation, and arduous service in the West Indies and Nova Scotia, where it was consigned because of Irish Protestant distrust and political manoeuvring, and explores the changing nature of Irish military identity.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0968344514559872?journalCode=wiha

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Insurgency and Counter-insurgency in Royal Meath: the Battle of Tara, 1798
Ciarán McDonnell
Journal of the Navan and District Historical Society, Vol 4 (2017), pp 333-52.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331939917_Insurgency_and_Counter-insurgency_in_Royal_Meath_the_Battle_of_Tara_1798

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https://ciaranmcdonnell.weebly.com/publications--papers.html

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