History of The Insurrection of The County of Wexford, A.D. 1798; Including an Account of Transactions Preceeding That Event, with an Appendix. Embellished with an elegant Map of the County of Wexford.

History of The Insurrection of The County of Wexford, A.D. 1798; Including an Account of Transactions Preceeding That Event, with an Appendix. Embellished with an elegant Map of the County of Wexford.

Author: Hay, Edward

8vo.(5" x 8.625") 1803. Hay, Edward. Dublin. Printed for the author by John Stockdale. Brown cloth tape over gray/green card boards, evidently repaired. Library bookplate to front pastedown, prior owners name in ink crossed out to top of half-title page, not affecting text. Lacking map of Wexford County, has a fold out of tables towards rear. Small spots of foxing throughout, but not every page. Covers soiled, corners bumped and rubbed. Brown tape at head and foot of spine ruffled with tiny, closed tears. Closed tears to first and last pages at the gutters.

From Wiki: Edward Hay (1761–1826) was the author of a book on the Irish Rebellion of 1798, and a witness to many of the events of that time. Hay was witness to many of the events in Wexford town during the Rebellion. Hay's brother, John, was a prominent Rebel leader, who was executed near the end of the Rebellion on Wexford bridge, 26 June 1798. John Hay was buried in Kilmallock graveyard, County Wexford. Another brother, Philip, was a member of the British Army, and was buried in England. Edward Hay was tried for involvement in the Rebellion but was acquitted. It is clear from Hay's own account and from Miles Byrne's Memoirs that Edward Hay himself had little involvement in the actual fighting, but his actual role in organizing and promoting the Rebellion is far less certain. Hay's book was first published in 1803 as "History of the Insurrection of the County of Wexford, A. D. 1798". This was one of the first accounts of the Rebellion. It was reprinted many times, usually under the slightly altered title of "History of the Irish insurrection of 1798", presumably to appeal to a wider audience. Most of these reprints omit Hay's 1803 Introduction and Appendix, as well as his large fold-out map of County Wexford. Hay's original 1803 book is now scarce, but is now available on the Internet - less the map. However, an exact copy of his map was reprinted in Wheeler and Broadley's, "The War in Wexford: An Account of the Rebellion in the South of Ireland in 1798" (London & New York, 1910).

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