"Irish for the '98" Topic

I picked up a few packs of Trent Miniatures 28mm Irish for the '98 at Wargames at Historicon this weeekend.
Ed showed me an Osprey-like book that had a bunch of color plates for them, and on which the figures were based.
I forgot to get the name or author. Doh!
Is anyone familiar wth it, and where I can get it?

John, is it "The Uniforms of 1798-1803" by F. Glenn Thompson, c. 1998?

Yes! Thank you!
That was it, and I just ordered it from amazon.com.
This topic is now cleared for hijacking.

Or could it be "The 1798 Rebellion- An illustrated History by Thomas Bartlett, Kevin Dawson and Daire Keogh" (Has a red cover with a period battle painting on the cover?)
ISBN: 1-57098-255-4 , Roberts Rinehart Publishers, Boulder Colorado.

Tom Dye
GFI

Sorry, The OFM posted while I was typing. Still, a good reference book on the conflict.

Tom Dye
GFI

Thaks anyway, Tom!

John, did you happen to take a look at the Trent French as well. I wonder how they looked?

Ireland didn't qualify for the '98 World Cup unfortunately, so you don't need any figures for them.

john,
how do the figures look? Are there pictures online? Do they make British figures as well?

Dan

Speaking of which, I understand from folk who have been there that Cork airport has a imposing bronze statue of a revered personage that cannot fail to catch the eye of all who visit. Is for Dan O'Connell, the Liberator, Wolf Tone? the heroes of the '98 or Easter 1916?………. No Jackie Charlton the English manager of the 1994 World Cup Squad.

The figures are tall-ish, and I see no possibility of them snapping off at the ankles..
I will pull out my digital calipers tonight.
I only had eyes for these, and did not see the French. British may be out later.
Apparently Wargames Inc is at the mercy of companies with sculptors who produce figures by whim and fancy.
The British are a "strong possibility", but more Irish are a "definite".
I was shown a French General (Humbert?) who looked suitably dashing and romantic, in the traditional "long haired hippie revolutionary in a pelisse" pose.

So, it's time to redo the "Rescue Roddy McCorley" game with proper figures this time, and to re-read Thomas Flanagan's
"The Year of the French", where O'Carroll appears on page 10 and is hanged on page 13.

As for the figures themselves, they are all in the "tall leprechaun" outfit, with that strange hat, short jacket with waistcoat. Each figure in the pack has a different pose, and the hands must be drilled out to take the "pike".
This is not the "pike" so beloved by Ancient gamers, but really more of a naginata, from pictures I have seen. Farm tools gone bad, in other words.

Is there anywhere a list of available Trent miniatures ??

I believe the author of 'The Year of the French' is Thomas Pakenham, not Flanagan.

Try the Wargames Inc web site for a list of Trent figures.

I believe the author of 'The Year of the French' is Thomas Pakenham, not Flanagan.

You are wrong, and I am right.

<<Speaking of which, I understand from folk who have been there that Cork airport has a imposing bronze statue of a revered personage that cannot fail to catch the eye of all who visit. Is for Dan O'Connell, the Liberator, Wolf Tone? the heroes of the '98 or Easter 1916?………. No Jackie Charlton the English manager of the 1994 World Cup Squad.>>

Daniel O'Connell was a Kerry man – no way would his statue EVER appear anywhere in Cork!!!!!!!

"No Jackie Charlton the English manager of the 1994 World Cup Squad."

Yep he is fishinig or was in the old airport in an artifical pnd. I have a photo of me sitting next to him somewhere :0P

Talking of surprising statues in Ireland.
Where's that little town with a statue of Napoleon Bonaparte?