portrait / General Joseph Holt

Print. Joseph Holt, Irish Rebel commender, 1798. Copy of a picture, made by on the orders of Sir William Beetham, during Holt's imprisonment in Dublin Castle in 1798. Original artist unknown. Text - General Holt, Commander of the Wicklow rebels, 1798 Patience and peace were all the words our Pastors gave, Patience, while kin for vengence call, Peace and the Land a grave! And so the spring time sped in idle silence by, while rapive made the midnight red, and hid by the noonday sky. Till scorning steel rope with hate for all their laws, brave Joesph Holt dared life and hope and joined the peoples cause! Then them our heartsprings thrilled, for now we had a man with thoughts for vengence of unfullfilled and head to guide a plan.;