United Kingdom
In contrast to the IRA, it was prepared to use violent means to realize its ends. But this did not extinguish opposition in 1798 a rebellion broke out in Ireland, organised by the United Irishmen, a revolutionary republican group, who had been inspired by the revolutions of France and America. Despite successes in the south-east county of Wexford and the help of the French, it in the end failed. In January 1801 the Act of Union was passed, which created Ireland and England 1 state, as a outcome of the rebellion convincing William Pitt that this was essential for national...