Irish rebels practise their weapons on the effigy of a British soldier which is spiked on a spear outside a country ale-house. Aquatint by J. Gillray, 1798.

On the Irish rebels whose revolt against the British in 1798 became a religious and agrarian peasant revolt. Their tricolour cockades refer to the links with the French Revolution. The ale-house bears the inn-sign of The tree of liberty, and advertises "True French spirits" over the entrance