3313 x 2307 px | 28,1 x 19,5 cm | 11 x 7,7 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
1887
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The destruction of the church at Enniscorthy, an alleged incident during Irish Rebellion of 1798. It was popular for English histories of the rebellion to portray it as a sectarian event, whereas the United Irishmen were both Protestant and Catholic. In particular the prominent leaders of the United Irishmen in Co Wexford were members of the Church of Ireland included Beauchamp Bagenal Harvey, who became president of the Wexford Council, and his brother, James Harvey, their cousin, John Boxwell, John and Cornelius Grogan, and Matthew Keugh, the governor of Wexford Town. Four of the eight members of the government of Wexford town were Protestants Nicholas Grey, Bagenal Harvey, William Hatton, and Matthew Keogh and all three colonels for the Baronies of Forth and Bargy were members of the Church of Ireland. Illustration by George Cruikshank (1792 - 1878) from History of the Irish rebellion published 1887. The rebellion was brutally repressed by The British, who carried out many killings of civilians and collective punishment of entire communities, actions which would probably today be viewed as war crimes. The British however saw themselves as the victims of the traitorous Irish, and newspapers of the day invariably portrayed the Irish as murderous savages, while the British army and their Protestant allies were portrayed as underdogs and victims. George Cruikshank was fiercely patriotic, and his illustrations invariably portrayed the rebels as mobs of subhuman brutes, whilst the British were portrayed as upstanding defenders of law and order. His illustrations should therefore probably -despite their artistic merit- be viewed as British propaganda.
