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Atrocities against Irish troops and civilians tailed off as the reconquest stalled, civil war broke out in England and the Lords Justices were replaced by the reliably royalist James Butler, Earl of Ormond.
It seems that Cromwell came to Ireland not to crush Catholicism but Royalism. How does this square with Cromwell’s justification of the killing of 3552 combatants and civilians at Drogheda (the figure given by his chaplain, Hugh Peter, who will have buried them).
Aug 25, 2017 · 242 James Miles and Some of His Descendants. Children of Samuel and Margaret Miles were: Tamar (Thamar, or James) b. 8 mo. 27 1687; d. mo. 27,1770 ; m. 3 mo. 6,1708, Thomas Thomas (son of William), Her dau. m. Nathan Lewis. Phebe, b. 4 mo. 20, 1690; (rem. to Haverford) ; m. 2 mo. 13,1715, Evan Evans. Ruth, b. 1 mo. 28,1693; d. prior to 1736; m ...
William was Prince of Orange, a Dutch-speaking Protestant married to James's daughter Mary, and became king at the request of parliament. James sought refuge with his old ally, Louis XIV of France, who saw an opportunity to strike at William through Ireland.
- Background
- The Siege of Derry
- Jacobite Ireland
- The Battle of The Boyne
- Sarsfield and The Siege of Limerick
- The Battle of Aughrim and The End of The War
- ‘Remember Limerick’
- Legacy and Memory
The War of the Two Kings was the culmination of over a century of ethno -religious wars and strife in Ireland. By the early 17th century the English state had for the first time overcome the independent Gaelic lordships and established political control over the whole of the Kingdom of Ireland – governed by an English administration in Dublin Castl...
Protestant resistance to the Jacobite regime was initially crushed. Justin McCarthy, Viscount Mountcashel put down a Protestant Williamite (supporters of William) rebellion at Bandon, County Cork and in Dromore, County Down a rising of local Williamites was also easily defeated. Only in the walled city of Derry, in the north west, did the Protestan...
While James had little interest in Ireland in and of itself, viewing it mainly as a means of recovering the throne of England, for his supporters, the Irish Jacobites, it was a chance to reverse more than a century of English and Protestant domination. There were some Protestant Jacobites, who viewed James as the lawful King and William’s accession...
The turning point of the war came when William marched south on Dublin with a large army of over 36,000 men in June of 1690. James’ forces, outnumbered by about 3-2, offered resistance at the river Boyne, just to the west of the town of Drogheda. On July 1, 1690 the Williamites successfully crossed the river at a number of points and forced the Jac...
Wanting to to get the campaign in Ireland over with, William marched west to besiege Limerick. However his artillery train was ambushed and destroyed by a daring cavalry raid carried out by the emerging Jacobite leader Patrick Sarsfield. When more big guns were brought up from Waterford, the Williamites battered a breach in Limerick’s walls and mou...
Warfare in the 17th century was very much dependent on the seasons. Large armies simply could not be moved or fed in the winter months and so it was not until the following summer of 1691 that the Willamite forces under Ginkel again tried to smother the Jacobite enclave in the west of Ireland. Following a hard fought siege at Athlone, which command...
Sarsfield signed the Treaty of Limerick, with Ginkel, under which Sarsfield and over 10,000 Jacobite soldiers were to leave for France to continue to serve King James there. More importantly, the Treaty gave guarantees that no more Catholic owned land would be confiscated and no more discriminatory legislation would be passed against the Catholic r...
The ‘War of the Two Kings’ was the major military conflict of what is known in British history as the ‘Glorious Revolution’, in which Britain was, according to the national narrative, saved from absolutism and the monarch was forced to govern through a parliament and while respecting a bill of rights. Obviously, when applied to Ireland, this narrat...
Wood’s compassion was short-lived—he rifled the body for any money and jewelry and then “flung her down over the rocks.” Wood also described how his soldiers picked up children and used them as human shields “to save themselves from being shot or brained” while they ascended the lofts and galleries of the church.
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May 16, 2024 · It was 11 September 1649 and Nicholas Bernard, a Protestant minister and former chaplain to James Ussher, huddled with his congregation inside Drogheda. They bowed and prayed while Drogheda's walls were pummelled and breached.
