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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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One of the biggest castles in Ireland, Cahir Castle was built in 1142 by Conor O'Brien, Prince of Thomond, on an island in the river Suir. Now situated inside the town centre of Cahir, the castle is well preserved and has guided tour and audiovisual shows in multiple languages. In 1375, the castle was granted to Butler, newly-created Baron of Cahir, for his loyalty to Edward III. The Butlers of Cahir sided with the Irish in the Elizabethan wars, and in 1599 the castle was captured after ...

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The Battle of Benburb took place in 1646 in the Irish Confederate Wars, the Irish theatre of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. It was fought between the forces of Confederate Ireland under Owen Roe O'Neill and a Scottish Covenanter army under Robert Munro. The battle ended in a decisive victory for the Irish Confederates and ended the Scottish hopes of conquering Ireland and imposing their own religious settlement there. Battle of Benburb - Background. The Scots had landed an army in Ulster in 1642, i ...

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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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• Wars of the Three Kingdoms - War Breaks Out
• Wars of the Three Kingdoms - Main events
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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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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 - 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
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The Scots had landed an army in Ulster in 1642, in order to protect the Scottish settlers there from the massacres that followed the Irish Rebellion of 1641. They also hoped to conquer the country, to destroy Catholicism there and impose Presbyterianism as the state religion. They landed at Carrickfergus and linked up with an army of British settlers based around Derry who were led by Robert Stewart. They cleared Ulster of Irish rebels by 1643, but were unable to advance south of mid-Ulster, which was held by Owen Roe O'Neill, the gen ...

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Battle of Benburb, Battle of Benburb - Background, Battle of Benburb - The Battle

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The death toll of the conflict was huge. William Petty, a Cromwellian who conducted the first scientific land and demographic survey of Ireland in the 1650s, concluded that at least 400,000 people and maybe as many as 620,000 had died in Ireland between 1641 and 1653. The true figure may be lower, but the lowest suggested is about 200,000. And this in a country of only around 1.5 million inhabitants. It is estimated that about two thirds of the deaths were civilian. The Irish defeat led to the mass confiscation of Catholic owned land and the British Prote ...

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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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