by hanging. After the battle, the majority of the rebel forces retreated unmolested towards the Three Rocks camp near the town of Wexford. There, rebel commanders agreed to abandon the camp and split into two separate columns in order to launch a new campaign aimed at reviving the rebellion outside County Wexford. One column moved west, and the other north towards the Wicklow Mountains to link up with Joseph Holt's rebels. As such, the defeat was not the decisive rebel defeat as it has been commonly portrayed, though it did alter the nature of further fighting as rebel military actions subsequently consisted exclusively of mobile warfare, raids and other guerilla operations. In popular culture In his poem Requiem For the Croppies, Irish poet Seamus Heaney depicted the battle as "the final conclave" where the last hopes for the rebellion to succeed were finally crushed, though the poem's final line depicts the barley in the pockets of dead rebels growing through the soil used to bury them in, symbolising that their dreams of independence live on. The battle was depicted in the 2015 American musical The Guns of Ireland written by playwrights Jeffrey David Payne and Mike Speegle. See also Castle Hill convict rebellion Vinegar Hill (Charlottesville, Virginia) Vinegar Hill, Brooklyn References Primary sources Byrne, Miles. (1780–1862) – Memoirs. Cullen, Luke. Personal Recollections of Wexford and Wicklow Insurgents of 1798 (1938). Cloney, Thomas. A Personal Narrative of those Transactions in the County of Wexford, in which the author was engaged, during the awful period of 1798. Dublin, 1832. Gordon, James B. History of the Rebellion in Ireland in the year 1798, &c. London, 1803. Maxwell. W.H. "History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798 with Memoirs of the Union and Bennetts Insurrection of 1803" Bell & Daldy, Covent Gardens, 1861. Secondary sources Dickson, Charles. The Wexford Rising in 1798: Its Causes and Course. Tralee, 1955. Furlong, Nicholas. Fr. John Murphy of Boolavogue, 1753–98. Dublin, 1991. . Gahan, Daniel. The People's Rising. Wexford 1798. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan Ltd., 1995. Kee, Robert. The Green Flag: A History of Irish Nationalism. London, 1972. Keogh, Daire & Nicholas Furlong (Editors). The Mighty Wave: The 1798 Rebellion in Wexford. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1996. . 18th century in County Down Battles of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 Military history of County Down