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Katherine Fennelly
William Farrell was in his twenties during the uprising in Ireland in 1798. Living in the south-east, an area of particular agitation, Farrell witnessed the unrest in his native Carlow and became a reluctant participant in an event which led ultimately to the hanging of eleven men in the town. His memoirs of the event, Carlow in ’98 , were published posthumously in 1949 , edited by Irish academic Roger McHugh. The memoirs were written between 1835 and 1845 with all of the benefit of hindsight and no small degree of what McHugh referred