Question
Lazare Hoche’s attempt at smuggling a revolutionary from this modern-day country back with arms, but his expedition was dashed by a thunderstorm. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this country, where Theobald Wolfe Tone led a failed 1798 rebellion against British rule. Wolfe Tone was from the Protestant Ascendancy that dominated this mostly-Catholic modern-day country.
ANSWER: Ireland [or Republic of Ireland]
[10h] Irish revolutionaries who adopted a hairstyle similar to French revolutionaries were given this derisive nickname by the British. Seamus Heaney described the Battle of Vinegar hill in a “requiem” for these people.
ANSWER: croppies
[10m] This Irish politician and advocate for Catholic Emancipation expressed skepticism over Wolfe Tone’s French-backed rebellion. This politician also created the Repeal Association to repeal the Acts of Union.
ANSWER: Daniel O’Connell
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