“Father Murphy and the heretic bullets”. Illustration by George Cruikshank. On June 9, 1798 at the Battle of Arklow, County Wicklow, Father Michael Murphy, a general with the United Irishmen, convinced his followers that the British Army bullets were harmless and that he could catch them. This inspired his men to attack, but Father Murphy was killed. From History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798; with Memoirs of the Union, and Emmett’s Insurrection in 1803 by Maxwell. Published in London 1854.

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