Description A bloody episode that epitomised the political dilemmas of the eighteenth century In 1798, members of the United Irishmen were massacred by the British amid the crumbling walls of a half-built town near Waterford in Ireland.
The Barracks were the remnants of an experimental community called New Geneva, a settlement of Calvin.
Many of the Irish were republicans inspired by the French Revolution, and the site of their demise was known as Genevan Barracks.
Description A bloody episode that epitomised the political dilemmas of the eighteenth century In 1798, members of the United Irishmen were massacred by the British amid the crumbling walls of a half-built town near Waterford in Ireland