The capture of the Bastille ignited one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded the feudal system be ...

This was much more than simply a mob. The French Revolution would be led by shopkeepers, journalists and lawyers. For the first time the citizens took control and formed their own government.

In their modern forms they came about as a result of two events, the American Revolution in 1776 and the French Revolution in 1789. The French Revolution would have an enormous impact in Ireland ...