Irish History - Thousands of Irish people lynched after 1798

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I would like to know more about the after effects of the 1798 Irish rebellion, when the united Irishmen, Catholic Protestant and dissenter rose as one against Colonial rule from England, the Westminster Crown.

I have read here in one excellent and very informative Irish history written topic, about the execution of hundreds of Irish people in Bandon County Cork.
I was shocked and appalled at how many Irish were murdered by the British colonial law.
Thousands of unarmed Irish were murdered, many hung or lynched, this was a Colonial act of public terrorism. The British crown who had just lost their American colony and desperate not to lose more colonized lands, set out to put terror in the hearts and minds of the Irish natives.
What the British did in 1798 was a war crime even by the standards of the time.
Thousands of Irish civilians were murdered on hearsay evidence, in a act of spite punishment, in blatant attempt to install terror.

Most lynched were innocent Irish people, accused without evidence and condemned en masse by a brutal Colonial law system.
The topic shows that in just on small part of Cork, hundreds of Irish were murdered by Colonial law enforcers after 1798, as supposed rebels.

Most were hung in batches of ten or more in daily public lynchings at the Bandon Bridge, the figures backed up by historical records prove the hundreds hanged there around and just after the 1798 rebellion.

Got me thinking! From what I understand of the 1798 rebellion, Cork was not especially active, and Bandon not significant.
So if hundreds of Irish were hanged or lynched at Bandon in Cork, then how many thousands must have been lynched by the British Colonial system in the Island of Ireland.
Remember hundreds more Irish lost their lives in the same period for the same cause abroad.
The United Irish movement was active here in Canada and Australia. I guess many more Irish were hung as rebels in in Britain.

12 years a slave got me thinking.

Was not just Black Africans who were treated like dogs.

12 years a slave was just 50 years after thousands of Irish were lynched, hung at the whim of the English Crown.

The British Crown terrorists failed in their evil policy, despite the murders of thousands of innocent Irish in 1798 and shortly after, the British Crown did not beat the Irish into submission then and they never will.

We will not look up to them as Royals, we look at them for what they really are, A mafia family who got wealthy on crime, terrorism and murder.
We have never surrendered and so absolute is that mindset, we Irish do not need a flag or motto to shout about that politic.

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