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ttlement, but when the homes of the ople and their church were bu ed, he told them: "It is tter to die bravely in the field th butchered in your home " Father Murphy's men defeated the English gar­ ri n in Wexford on May en he marched his men to Enni rthy, a key city. His men charged the city te a in and again The British tr couldn't lieve that the rly armed men could fi t bravely. The Ir h broke through the gate and t k the city.
e British were furious at the Irish r daring to re l against them. They pr eeded to crush the rising with cruel verity. Many of the lead­ e were tortured and publicly hanged Hou were tom a rt to find hidden wea n By July 23 the last of the Irish armies had to rrender.
Then in Augus the French arrived Their leader, Gene l Hum rt, was repre nting only him , not the French gove men and he had only a small rce. He won me victories in Connaught and forced 35 British tr ps to flee in a ttle known as the Races of Castlebar. But his men were eventually surrounded and forced to retu to F nce.
The rising had en crushed, but the Irish desire for fr om could never crushed In 1829 every Catholic parish in the country titioned for e ncip ion anting the rights of citizenship to Irish) on the me day at the me hour. s impr d the British Parliament that they did relax me of their oppre ive laws by pa ing the Catholic Emancipa­ tion Act e
In the 1840's the tato crop in Ireland failed veral yars in a row. cau English l dlords o ed m t of the land, m t of Ireland's crops were ship d to England and the ople had only tat s to eat when the crop faile the Irish had no f The English gove ment, of cour , could have prohibited the landlords from shipping ain to En and that it could feed the people in Ireland But cau of z f re, the gov­ e ment did not interfere. As the Irish died of hunger, shipl ds of f left Ireland and went to England With hunger came epidemi and more Irish died Many Irish came to the United State ll g everything they had to get space on rd a ship. The ships came to known as coffin ships cau conditions on them were bad that alm t as many people arrived in America dead as alive. it is estimated that by the time the famine ende Ireland's pulation had en cut in half.
But the agitation for freedom went on During ster Week in 1916, a oup of Irish patriots l by the great hero Padr c P d the t office in Dulin and pr laimed Ireland's independence. But the E er Re­ be ion lasted only a week. Pea had to order his men to lay down their