Subject: United Irishman 'croppy' rebel
Culture: Catholic Irish
Setting: rebellions, Ireland late 18th - early 19thc
Object: costume
National Museum of Ireland -- Decorative Arts and History > Soldiers and Chiefs - The Irish at War at Home and Abroad since 1550 *
"CROPPY PRISONER, 1798
This captured rebel awaits his fate here in the Dublin Barracks after the rebellion. His civilian clothes indicate he is not a soldier, but a farm boy. With many others, he is confined within the square just outside this building. If he is unlucky, he will be hanged, and his body will be dumped in the River Liffey. If the British spare him because of his youth, he faces transportation to Australia as a convict."
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