Weatherday: All that delirium of the brave

Early rain will clear to a cloudy and mostly dry day. Southerly breeze will blow up to moderate in the afternoon before slackening again.

Maximum local temperature around 15deg.

NOTE: I don't know how it happened, but I got this day wrong by a month - the Battle of Kilcullen happened in May, not June. Apologies.

On this day in 1798, United Irishmen rebels began gathering after nightfall on Old Kilcullen. The subsequent battle over two days would see first a victory by the rebels and later their defeat by the British.

(The headline is the title of a book on 1798 in Kildare, by Mario Corrigan, published by Kildare County Council in 1998.)

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