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Joseph Patrick Kelly, Professor of Literature and Director of Irish and Irish American Studies, College of Charleston

An 18th-century rebellion for liberty, equality and freedom − not in France or the United States, but Ireland

A sculpture in Wexford, Ireland, by Eamonn O'Doherty, called 'Fuascailt,' commemorates the 1798 rebellion. Niall Carson/PA Images via Getty Images

Shortly before midnight on May 23, 1798, highwaymen just north of Dublin intercepted and set on fire a mail coach headed to Belfast.

It was the signal meant to ignite revolution across all Ireland.

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