Talk:Gibbet Rath executions

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Why is this a stub exactly? People should justify their assessments so improvements can be made -i.e specific references to article as opposed to arbitrary. --Damnbutter 16:12, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008

Article reassessed and graded as start class. --dashiellx (talk) 19:19, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Duff's arrival

All the sources agree that Duff arrived in Kildare town in the early morning of 29 May and pushed on to the Curragh where the massacre took place. So I am removing "to bivouac for the night and prepare to take the rebels' surrender the following day." The generals that organised the surrender and amnesty were on the east side of the Curragh, several miles away, and not in touch with Duff who was on the southwest side. Duff had just arrived and neither the rebels nor the generals knew his force had arrived. Then came the tragedy; he ploughed on into an apparently armed group of rebels who were not prepared for an attack, having already agreed to surrender.86.42.201.252 (talk) 19:35, 30 July 2010 (UTC) QUESTIONING ABOVE- However, one source (at least), Fitzpatrick's "Sham Squire" (Gill 1865, p.321)supports the view that the British rested overnight; this account stated that Lord Roden's "foxhunters" appeared drunk on the street of Kildare swearing to "slaughter the croppies tomorrow". Whether they rested overnight or not, it seems very likely that Duff must have paused for a few hours, as following a forced march (90 miles in 2 days) from Limerick he surely would not have undertaken a cavalry battle without resting his horses. The above account by Fitzpatrick also says that many rebels were "notified" of Duff's approach, and many lives were saved as they were "deterred from proceeding to the spot". This again seems very likely, as rebel look-outs between Monasterevin and Kildare would easily have outrun Duff's army and brought the news of their approach in advance.86.42.206.14 (talk) 14:14, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

NPOV concerns

Based on terminology used I have some concerns about WP:NPOV and a broader view might be warranted. Dkendr (talk) 20:02, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

What are the concerns?? Quis separabit? 23:45, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

It seems to me that there are some unsupported statements such as who fired first, whether one commander had knowledge of an upcoming surrender, etc. that need more citations. Dkendr (talk) 04:55, 17 December 2015 (UTC)