Elizabeth Sugrue
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Elizabeth Sugrue, also known as Lady Betty, was an Irish executioner.
Roscommon Gaol
Irish Rebellion of 1798
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The Irish Rebellion of 1798 was a popular insurrection against the British Crown in what was then the separate, but subordinate, Kingdom of Ireland. The main organising force was the Society of United
Elizabeth Sugrue
…after three others refused. She lived in the prison thereafter, carrying out executions and floggings, including a number of rebels executed during the 1798 Rebellion. She was known to draw portraits of the men and women she hanged on the wall of her lodgings with charcoal. She was not the first hangwoman in Ireland…
The leadership of the United Irishmen
In End of the Irish Invasion–or–the Destruction of the French Armada (1797), James Gillray caricatured the failure of Hoche's expedition.
"Pikeman" statue in Wexford Town
United Irishmen charge at Oulart Hill, 27 May 1798