Women in Rebellion: Recovering Female Voices in the 1798 Rebellion Papers

New collection released by the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland in partnership with the National Archives of Ireland presents a series of documents that capture the voices and experiences of women during the 1790s, and especially during the 1798 Rebellion.

These items are preserved within the Rebellion Papers, a remarkable collection that offers a vivid window into Irish life and politics during the late eighteenth century. Long overlooked in traditional histories, women’s voices, whether loyalist or rebel, victim or witness, were often drowned out by the partisan narratives that followed the 1798 Rebellion. The documents in this collection begin to redress that silence and restore women’s perspectives to the historical record. 

See: Women in Rebellion