Roddy McCorley

Roddy McCorley (died 28 February 1800) was an Irish nationalist from the civil parish of Duneane, County Antrim, Ireland. Following the publication of the Ethna Carbery poem bearing his name in 1902, where he is associated with events around the Battle of Antrim, he is alleged to have been a member of the United Irishmen and claimed as a participant in their rebellion of 1798.[1]

  1. ^ Guy Beiner, "'The Enigma of “Roddy McCorley Goes to Die': Forgetting and Remembering a Local Rebel Hero in Ulster" in Rhythms of the Revolt: European Traditions and Memories of Social Conflict in Oral Culture, edited by Éva Guillorel, David Hopkin and William G. Pooley (Routledge, 2017), pp. 327-57.