Year of Liberty: History of the Great Irish Rebellion of 1798 - Tapa dura

(This classic account of the great Irish rebellion of 1798 remains the only full-scale history of that tragic event. As relevant today as it was when first published in 1969.
In 1798 they had come out of their mountains, forests and farmsteads in amazing numbers, armed mostly with primitive weapons, to confront the artillery, cavalry and guns of a modern state and its settler militia. Their courage was often remarked by the British military who opposed them and they died in their thousands)