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this is a political history, for a military history of this time, see Irish Confederate Wars The Catholic Confederation was formed in the aftermath of the 1641 rebellion, both to control the popular uprising and to organise an Irish Catholic war effort against the remaining British armies in Ireland. It was hoped that by doing this, the Irish Catholics could hold off an English or Scottish re-conquest of the country. The initiative for the Confederation came from a Catholic bishop, Nicholas French and a lawyer named Nich ...

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Confederate Ireland, Confederate Ireland - Rebellion and the formation of the Confederation, Confederate Ireland - Cessation with the royalists the Nuncio's arrival and the first Ormonde peace, Confederate Ireland - Military defeat and a new Ormonde peace, Confederate Ireland - Civil War within the Confederation, Confederate Ireland - Cromwell’s invasion, Confederate Ireland - Significance, Confederate Ireland - Sources, Confederate Ireland - External link

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1647 - Events of the English Civil War. Castle of Aberystwyth razed to the ground by Parliamentarian troops August: Army marches to London December 28, Charles promises church reform. This agreement led to the Second English Civil War. 1647 - Ongoing events. English Civil War (1642-1649) 1647 - Births. January 7 - Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1677) March 12 - Victor-Mauric ...

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Confederate Ireland refers to a brief period of Irish self-government between the Rebellion of 1641 and the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland in 1649. During this time, two-thirds of Ireland was governed by the Irish Catholic Confederation, also known as the 'Confederation of Kilkenny' (based in the city of Kilkenny). The remaining Protestant enclaves in Ulster, Munster and Leinster were held by armies loyal to the royalists, parliamentarians or Scottish Covenanters during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. The Confede ...

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• Confederate Ireland - Rebellion and the formation of the Confederation
• Confederate Ireland - Cessation with the royalists the Nuncio's arrival and the first Ormonde peace
• Confederate Ireland - Military defeat and a new Ormonde peace
• Confederate Ireland - Civil War within the Confederation
• Confederate Ireland - Cromwell’s invasion
• Confederate Ireland - Significance
• Confederate Ireland - Sources
• Confederate Ireland - External link

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Alasdair MacColla (circa 1620 to 1647) was a Scottish-Irish soldier. His full name in Scottish Gaelic was Alasdair MacColla Ciotach MacDomhnaill (in English: Alasdair the son of Colla the Left-handed, of the clan MacDonald). He is also referred to in English as "Collkitto". He fought in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, most notably in the Scottish Civil War. He died in the battle of Knocknanauss in 1647. MacColla was born in the Western Isles of Scotland in the early seventeenth century into the Clan Donald branch of the ...

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The Wars of the Three Kingdoms were an intertwined series of conflicts that took place in Scotland, Ireland, and England between 1639 and 1651 at a time when these countries had come under the Personal Rule of the same monarch. The best known of these conflicts is the English Civil War. The wars were the outcome of tensions between king and subjects over religious and civil issues. Religious disputes centered on whether religion was to be dictated by the monarch or the choice of the subject, who had a direct relationship with God. The ...

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See also Confederate Ireland King Charles I sent a large army to Ireland in 1642 to put down the rebellion, as did the Scottish Covenanters. These armies quickly drove the Irish out Ulster and from around Dublin. In self-defence, Irish Catholics formed their own government, the Catholic Confederation, with its capital at Kilkenny and raised their own armies. The Confederates also held important port towns at Waterford and Wexford, through which they could recieve aid from Catholic powers in Europe. Almost all Irish Catholics jo ...

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Irish Confederate Wars, Irish Confederate Wars - The Plot - October 1641, Irish Confederate Wars - The Rebellion - 1641-42, Irish Confederate Wars - The Confederate’s war - 1642-48, Irish Confederate Wars - The Cromwellian War 1649-1653, Irish Confederate Wars - The Cost, Irish Confederate Wars - Sources, Irish Confederate Wars - See Also, Irish Confederate Wars - External link

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The unity of the Three Kingdoms under one monarch was quite a recent development. Since 1541, monarchs of England had also ruled the Kingdom of Ireland through a separate Irish Parliament, while Wales was made part of the Kingdom of England. With the Reformation, King Henry VIII made himself head of the Protestant Church of England and Roman Catholicism was outlawed in England and Wales, but remained the religion of most people in Ireland. In the separate Kingdom of Scotland the Protestant Reformation was a popular movement led by Joh ...

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Wars of the Three Kingdoms, Wars of the Three Kingdoms - Background, Wars of the Three Kingdoms - Religious Confrontation in Scotland, Wars of the Three Kingdoms - England, Wars of the Three Kingdoms - Ireland, Wars of the Three Kingdoms - War Breaks Out, Wars of the Three Kingdoms - Main events, Wars of the Three Kingdoms - Aftermath

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However, MacColla really came to prominence with the onset of the conflict knowns as the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. The MacDonald clan, which was spread over north-western Scotland and north-eastern Ireland, sided with the Royalists and Irish Confederates. Their deadly enemies, the clan Campbell, sided with the Scottish Covenanters. Early in the war, MacColla was forced to flee the Western Isles, which were attacked by a Covenanter/Campbell force. Colla, his father was taken prisoner by the Campbells. On the outbreak of the Irish Rebellion ...

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Alasdair MacColla, Alasdair MacColla - Civil War in Ireland and Scotland, Alasdair MacColla - Defeat and death

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1647 - Events of the English Civil War. Castle of Aberystwyth razed to the ground by Parliamentarian troops August: Army marches to London December 28, Charles promises church reform. This agreement led to the Second English Civil War. 1647 - Ongoing events. English Civil War (1642-1649) ...

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Irish battles - Bruce Wars in Ireland. 1316 - Second Battle of Athenry 1318 - Battle of Dysert O'Dea 1318 - Battle of Faughart 1328 - battle of Thomond. Battle of Devlin (Delbhna Bethra); the MacGeoghegan kills three thousand English. 1330 - battle of Fiodh-an-atha; Ualgarg O'Rourke defeated by the English. Ath-Disirt-Nuadan. Berna-an-Mhil; Tomaltagh Mac Dermot and Mac William were defeated by the Brown Earl and Tomalta ...

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In 1643, the Confederates negotiated a ceasefire or cessation of hostilities, with the royalists in Ireland and opened negotiations with James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, the King's representative in Ireland. This meant that hostilities ceased between the Confederates and Ormonde’s royalist army in Dublin. However, the English garrison in Cork (which was commanded by Murrough O’Brien, Earl Inchiquinn, a rare Gaelic Irish Protestant) objecting to the ceasefire, mutinied and declared allegiance to the English Parliament. The Scottish Cove ...

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Confederate Ireland, Confederate Ireland - Rebellion and the formation of the Confederation, Confederate Ireland - Cessation with the royalists, the Nuncio's arrival and the first Ormonde peace, Confederate Ireland - Military defeat and a new Ormonde peace, Confederate Ireland - Civil War within the Confederation, Confederate Ireland - Cromwell’s invasion, Confederate Ireland - Significance, Confederate Ireland - Sources, Confederate Ireland - External link

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After the Confederates rejected the peace deal, Ormonde, handed Dublin over to a parliamentarian army under Michael Jones. The Confederates now tried to eliminate the remaining Protestant outposts in Dublin and Cork, but in 1647 suffered a series of military disasters. First, Thomas Preston’s Leinster army was destroyed by Jone’s parliamentarians at the battle of Dungans Hill in Meath. Then the Confederates Munster army met a similar fa ...

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Confederate Ireland, Confederate Ireland - Rebellion and the formation of the Confederation, Confederate Ireland - Cessation with the royalists the Nuncio's arrival and the first Ormonde peace, Confederate Ireland - Military defeat and a new Ormonde peace, Confederate Ireland - Civil War within the Confederation, Confederate Ireland - Cromwell’s invasion, Confederate Ireland - Significance, Confederate Ireland - Sources, Confederate Ireland - External link

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See Also English Civil War Irish Confederate Wars Scottish Civil War Modern historians have emphasised how the Civil Wars were not inevitable, but that all sides resorted to violence in a situation marked by mutual distrust and paranoia. Charles' initial failure to bring the Bishops Wars to a quick end also made other discontented groups feel that force could be used successfully to get what they wanted. Alienated by British Protestant domination and frightened by the rhetoric of the Englis ...

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Wars of the Three Kingdoms, Wars of the Three Kingdoms - Background, Wars of the Three Kingdoms - Religious Confrontation in Scotland, Wars of the Three Kingdoms - England, Wars of the Three Kingdoms - Ireland, Wars of the Three Kingdoms - War Breaks Out, Wars of the Three Kingdoms - Main events, Wars of the Three Kingdoms - Aftermath

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While the Wars of the Three Kingdoms pre-figured many of the changes that would shape modern Britain, in the short term it resolved little. The English Commonwealth was neither a monarchy nor a real republic. In practise Oliver Cromwell exercised power rather informally, and without a written constitution. There was religious freedom under this regime, but not for Roman Catholics. The Church of England was abolished, as was the House of Lords, but power was never given to the House of Commons and there were no fresh elections. Nor did Cromwe ...

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From 1641 to early 1642, the fighting in Ireland was characterised by small bands, raised by local lords or among local people, attacking civilians of opposing ethnic and religious groups. At first, Irish Catholic bands, particularly from Ulster, took the opportunity given them by the collapse of law and order to settle scores with Protestant settlers who had occupied Irish land in the plantations of Ireland. Initially, the Irish Catholic gentry raised militia forces to try and contain the violence, but afterwards, when it was clear that the ...

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Irish Confederate Wars, Irish Confederate Wars - The Plot - October 1641, Irish Confederate Wars - The Rebellion - 1641-42, Irish Confederate Wars - The Confederate’s war - 1642-48, Irish Confederate Wars - The Cromwellian War 1649-1653, Irish Confederate Wars - The Cost, Irish Confederate Wars - Sources, Irish Confederate Wars - See Also, Irish Confederate Wars - External link

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However, many of the Irish Catholics continued to reject a deal with the royalists. Owen Roe O'Neill refused to join the new royalist alliance and fought with the royalists and Confederates in the summer of 1648.The Papal Nuncio, Rinuccini endeavored to uphold Owen Roe O'Neill by excommunicating all who took part in a truce; but he could not get the Irish Catholic Bishops to agree on the matter. On Februa ...

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Confederate Ireland, Confederate Ireland - Rebellion and the formation of the Confederation, Confederate Ireland - Cessation with the royalists the Nuncio's arrival and the first Ormonde peace, Confederate Ireland - Military defeat and a new Ormonde peace, Confederate Ireland - Civil War within the Confederation, Confederate Ireland - Cromwell’s invasion, Confederate Ireland - Significance, Confederate Ireland - Sources, Confederate Ireland - External link

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In 1643, the Confederates negotiated a ceasefire or cessation of hostilities, with the royalists in Ireland and opened negotiations with James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, the King's representative in Ireland. This meant that hostilities ceased between the Confederates and Ormonde’s royalist army in Dublin. However, the English garrison in Cork (which was commanded by Murrough O’Brien, Earl Inchiquinn, a rare Gaelic Irish Protestant) objecting to the ceasefire, mutinied and declared allegiance to the English Parliament. The Scottish Cove ...

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Confederate Ireland, Confederate Ireland - Rebellion and the formation of the Confederation, Confederate Ireland - Cessation with the royalists the Nuncio's arrival and the first Ormonde peace, Confederate Ireland - Military defeat and a new Ormonde peace, Confederate Ireland - Civil War within the Confederation, Confederate Ireland - Cromwell’s invasion, Confederate Ireland - Significance, Confederate Ireland - Sources, Confederate Ireland - External link

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See also Irish Rebellion of 1641 The Irish Rebellion of 1641 was intended to be a swift and mainly bloodless seizure of power in Ireland by a small group of conspirators led by Phelim O’Neill. Small bands of the plotter’s kin and dependants were mobilised in Dublin, Wicklow and Ulster, to take strategic buildings like Dublin Castle. Since there were only a small number of English soldiers stationed in Ireland, this had a reasonable chance of succeeding. Had it done so, the remaining English garrisons could well have surrend ...

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Irish Confederate Wars, Irish Confederate Wars - The Plot - October 1641, Irish Confederate Wars - The Rebellion - 1641-42, Irish Confederate Wars - The Confederate’s war - 1642-48, Irish Confederate Wars - The Cromwellian War 1649-1653, Irish Confederate Wars - The Cost, Irish Confederate Wars - Sources, Irish Confederate Wars - See Also, Irish Confederate Wars - External link

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Main Article Cromwellian conquest of Ireland The Confederate/Royalist coalition wasted valuable months fighting with Owen Roe O'Neill and other former Confederates when they should have been preparing to resist the impending Parliamentarian invasion of Ireland. O'Neill later re-joined the Confederate side. Belatedly, in August 1649, Ormonde tried to take Dublin from the Parliamentarians, but was routed by Michael Jones at the battle of Rathmines. Oliver Cromwell landed shortly afterwards with the New Model Army. Whereas the Con ...

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Irish Confederate Wars, Irish Confederate Wars - The Plot - October 1641, Irish Confederate Wars - The Rebellion - 1641-42, Irish Confederate Wars - The Confederate’s war - 1642-48, Irish Confederate Wars - The Cromwellian War 1649-1653, Irish Confederate Wars - The Cost, Irish Confederate Wars - Sources, Irish Confederate Wars - See Also, Irish Confederate Wars - External link

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PEOPLE associated with the period include; Soldiers: Owen Roe O'Neill, Thoma Preston, Alasdair MacColla, Hugh Dubh O'Neill, Henry Ireton, George Monck, Oliver Cromwell, Garret Barry, Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, Murrough O'Brien, Earl Inchiquinn, Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnel. Political figures: Phelim O'Neill, James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, Patrick Darcy, Richard Martin fitz Oliver, Ulick de Burgh, 5th Earl of Clanricarde, Richard Bellings, Nicholas French, Nicholas Plunkett, Giovanni Battista Rinuccini, Char ...

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Irish Confederate Wars, Irish Confederate Wars - The Plot - October 1641, Irish Confederate Wars - The Rebellion - 1641-42, Irish Confederate Wars - The Confederate’s war - 1642-48, Irish Confederate Wars - The Cromwellian War 1649-1653, Irish Confederate Wars - The Cost, Irish Confederate Wars - Sources, Irish Confederate Wars - See Also, Irish Confederate Wars - External link

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