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1798 Irish Rebellion
1798 Irish Rebellion
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Quiz for Junior Cert History for the 1798 rebellion
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1
Name of the Laws that discriminated against the majority of Irish people?
Brehon Laws
Penal Laws
Painful Laws
Celtic Laws
2
What law took affect from the 1st of January 1801
Sectarian Act
Catholic Emancipation Act
Act of Union
Penal Laws
3
What was the name of the group that held power in Ireland that were a minority of the population in the 18th century?
Protestant Ascendancy
United Irishmen
Dublin Volunteers
4
Which of the following were Catholics were not allowed to do under Penal Law?
Practice their religion
Stand for Parliament
Send their child to receive an education
Own Land
5
What was a yeomanry?
A volunteer army of loyalists
Irish Catholic rebels
A form of torture used by the British
A group of Catholics farmers
6
Why did the French want to help Ireland defeat Britain?
They owed Ireland a favour
As the French were also at war with Britain
Wolfe Tone gave the French government a lump sum of money
7
Who was arrested at Lough Swilly in Co. Donegal
General Humbert
Father John Murphy
General Lake
Wolfe Tone
8
Who led the failed rebellion in Ulster?
Henry Joy McCracken
Henry Munro
Wolfe Tone
Lord Edward Fitzgerald
9
Where did the French 'arrive' on Irish soil?
Ballynahinch
Bantry Bay
Rosslare Harbour
Dingle
10
What was the main outcome of the Act of Union?
Irish Catholics could no longer practice their religion
Irish MP's were forced to sit in the Parliament in Westminster
Irish Catholics lost their land to Protestant Landlords
11
Who were leading the rebellions in Wexford?
Father John Murphy
Lord Harvey
Father John Sinnott
Bagenal Harvey
12
Who founded the United Irishmen?
Michael Collins
Henry Grattan
Wolfe Tone
William Jackson
13
What religious groups did the Penal Laws affect?
Presbyterians
Muslims
Protestants
Catholics
14
What revolutions inspired the Irish rebellions?
America
Germany
France
Austria
15
Where in Wexford did the rebellion take place?
Gorey
Vinegar Hill
Boolavogue
Rosslare
16
What society was founded in 1791 in Dublin & Belfast?
United Irishmen
Irish Volunteers
The Yeomanry
The Orange Order
