Encyclopedia - Ireland 1691-1801: Encyclopedia Ii - Ireland 1691-1801 - Irish Parliament And Politics
Ireland 1691-1801 - The Penal Laws. The Irish Parliament of this era was almost exclusively Anglican in composition. Catholics had been...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Williamite War In Ireland: Encyclopedia - Williamite War In Ireland
The Williamite war in Ireland, which could also be described as the Jacobite war in Ireland and is known in Ireland as Cogadh an Dá Rí ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Williamite War In Ireland: Encyclopedia Ii - Williamite War In Ireland - The Glorious Revolution
The War in Ireland began as a direct consequence of the Glorious Revolution in England. James, who was a Roman Catholic attempted to intr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Flight Of The Wild Geese: Encyclopedia Ii - Flight Of The Wild Geese - Spanish Service
The first Irish troops to serve as a unit for a continental power formed an Irish regiment in the Spanish army of Flanders in the Eighty ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Irish Rebellion Of 1798: Encyclopedia Ii - Irish Rebellion Of 1798 - Background
Since 1691 and the end of the Williamite war, Ireland had been controlled by a Protestant Ascendancy on behalf of the British Crown, gove...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Irish Rebellion Of 1798: Encyclopedia Ii - Irish Rebellion Of 1798 - Plan
The initial plan was to take Dublin, with the counties bordering Dublin to then rise to prevent the arrival of reinforcements with the re...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Irish Rebellion Of 1798: Encyclopedia Ii - Irish Rebellion Of 1798 - Government Crackdown And Counter Revolution
The shaken Establishment responed by launching a campaign of repression and coercion using tactics that included house burnings, torture,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Irish Rebellion Of 1798: Encyclopedia Ii - Irish Rebellion Of 1798 - Government Crackdown And Counter Revolution
The shaken Establishment responed by launching a campaign of repression and coercion using tactics that included house burnings, torture,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Flight Of The Wild Geese: Encyclopedia Ii - Flight Of The Wild Geese - French Service
From the mid 17th century or so, France overtook Spain as the destination for Catholic Irishmen seeking a military career. the principal ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Ireland: Encyclopedia - History Of Ireland
The History of Ireland is the story of a large island in the north-west of Europe and is heavily influenced by the concurrent History of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Irish Rebellion Of 1798: Encyclopedia Ii - Irish Rebellion Of 1798 - Society Of United Irishmen
The promise of reform inspired liberals to found the Society of the United Irishmen in 1791, openly putting forward its policies of democ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Williamite War In Ireland: Encyclopedia Ii - Williamite War In Ireland - Long-term Effects
The Williamite victory in the war in Ireland had two basic long term results. The first was to ensure that James II would not regain his ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Irish Rebellion Of 1798: Encyclopedia Ii - Irish Rebellion Of 1798 - Outbreak Of The Rebellion
The nucleus of the rebellion had imploded but the counties surrounding Dublin rose as planned and the long threatened rising finally bega...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Irish Rebellion Of 1798: Encyclopedia Ii - Irish Rebellion Of 1798 - Society Of United Irishmen
The promise of reform inspired liberals to found the Society of the United Irishmen in 1791, openly putting forward its policies of democ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Irish Rebellion Of 1798: Encyclopedia Ii - Irish Rebellion Of 1798 - French Landing
On 22 August, nearly two months after the main uprisings had been defeated, about 1,000 French soldiers under General Humbert landed in t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Irish Rebellion Of 1798: Encyclopedia Ii - Irish Rebellion Of 1798 - The Rebellion Spreads
In Wicklow large numbers rose but largely operated away from settled areas and engaged in a bloody rural guerilla war with the military a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Irish Rebellion Of 1798: Encyclopedia Ii - Irish Rebellion Of 1798 - Outbreak Of The Rebellion
The nucleus of the rebellion had imploded but the counties surrounding Dublin rose as planned and the long threatened rising began, surro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Irish Rebellion Of 1798: Encyclopedia Ii - Irish Rebellion Of 1798 - Plan
The initial plan was to take Dublin, with the counties bordering Dublin to then rise to prevent the arrival of reinforcements with the re...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Irish Rebellion Of 1798: Encyclopedia Ii - Irish Rebellion Of 1798 - Aftermath
Pockets of rebel resistance remained in Wexford with the last rebel group under James Corocoran, veterans of the battle of New Ross, not ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Irish Rebellion Of 1798: Encyclopedia Ii - Irish Rebellion Of 1798 - Atrocities
The prelude to the rebellion was characterised by the vicious brutality of Crown forces towards rebels, real or imagined, but large scale...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Williamite War In Ireland: Encyclopedia Ii - Williamite War In Ireland - Limerick Aughrim And The End Of The War
The war continued with the Irish retreating to Limerick, where they repulsed a Williamite assault with heavy casualties in August 1690. T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Irish Rebellion Of 1798: Encyclopedia Ii - Irish Rebellion Of 1798 - Legacy Of 1798
The aftermath of the rebellion in counties most affected became known as the "Great Silence" due to the reluctance to speak of the rising...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Williamite War In Ireland: Encyclopedia Ii - Williamite War In Ireland - William Arrives - Battle Of The Boyne
On August 13th 1689 William's army under Marshal Frederic Schomberg landed at Ballyholme Bay in County Down and after capturing Carrickfe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Williamite War In Ireland: Encyclopedia Ii - Williamite War In Ireland - War Breaks Out - Campaign In Ulster
James' Lord Deputy, Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell took action to ensure that all strong points in Ireland were held by garrisons...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Dublin: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Dublin - Colonial Dublin
Dublin and its inhabitants were transformed by the upheavals of the 16th and 17th centuries in Ireland. These saw the first thorough Engl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Irish Nationalism: Encyclopedia Ii - Irish Nationalism - History
Irish nationalism - Roots. Ireland has been subject to varying degrees of rule from England since the late 12th century. (See Norman Ir...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Ireland: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Ireland - Union With Great Britain 1801-1922
In 1800, after the Irish Rebellion of 1798, the British and the Irish parliaments (the latter controversially, as massive bribery was inv...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Early Modern Ireland 1536-1691: Encyclopedia Ii - Early Modern Ireland 1536-1691 - Civil Wars Land Confiscations And Penal Laws 1641-1691
The fifty years from 1641 to 1691 saw two catastrophic periods of civil war in Ireland 1641-53 and 1689-91, which killed hundreds of thou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Irish Nationalism: Encyclopedia Ii - Irish Nationalism - History
Irish nationalism - Roots. Ireland has been subject to varying degrees of rule from England since the late 12th century. (See Norman Ir...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Dublin: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Dublin - Independence
Dublin had suffered severely in the period 1916-1922. It was the scene of a week's heavy street fighting in 1916 and again on the outbrea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Ireland: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Ireland - Early History: 8000 Bc–ad 400
What little is known of pre-Christian Ireland comes from a few references in Roman writings, Irish poetry and myth, and archaeology. The ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Early Modern Ireland 1536-1691: Encyclopedia Ii - Early Modern Ireland 1536-1691 - The Religious Question And Colonisation
However, the English were not successful in converting either the native Irish elite or the people to the Protestant religion, and almost...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Irish Nationalism: Encyclopedia Ii - Irish Nationalism - Present
In Northern Ireland today, nationalist is used to refer either to the Catholic population in general or the supporters of the moderate So...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Dublin: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Dublin - Medieval Dublin
After the Hiberno-Norman taking of Dublin in 1171, many of the city’s Norse inhabitants left the old city, which was on the south side ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Irish Nationalism: Encyclopedia Ii - Irish Nationalism - Irish Nationalist Organisations 1791-present
19th Century Society of the United Irishmen Young Ireland Catholic Association Repeal Association Irish Republican Brotherhood-Fenian Br...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Ireland: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Ireland - Early Christian Ireland 400–800
The middle centuries of the first millennium AD marked great changes in Ireland. Niall Noigiallach (died c.450/455) laid the basis for th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Irish Nationalism: Encyclopedia Ii - Irish Nationalism - Irish Nationalist Organisations
(1791-Present) 19th Century Society of the United Irishmen Young Ireland Repeal Association Irish Republican Brotherhood-Fenian Brotherh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Ireland: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Ireland - Later Medieval Ireland
Main article Norman Ireland History of Ireland - The Coming of the Normans 1167–1185. By the 12th century, Ireland was divided politi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Ireland: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Ireland - Early Medieval Era 800–1166
Main article Early Medieval Ireland 800-1166 The first recorded Viking raid in Irish history occurred in 795 when Vikings from Norway loo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Irish Nationalism: Encyclopedia Ii - Irish Nationalism - Present
In Northern Ireland today, nationalist is used to refer either to the Catholic population in general or the supporters of the moderate So...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Ireland: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Ireland - Reformation 1536–1654 And Protestant Ascendancy 1654–1801
Main Article Early Modern Ireland 1536-1691 The Reformation, before which, in 1536, Henry VIII broke with Papal authority, fundamentally ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Early Modern Ireland 1536-1691: Encyclopedia Ii - Early Modern Ireland 1536-1691 - A New Order? 1607-1641
In the early years of the 17th century, it looked possible for a time that, due to immigration of English and Scottish settlers, Ireland ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Early Modern Ireland 1536-1691: Encyclopedia Ii - Early Modern Ireland 1536-1691 - Re-conquest And Rebellion 1536-1607
See also Tudor re-conquest of Ireland. There is some debate about why Henry VIII decided to re-conquer Ireland. However the most immediat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ireland 1691-1801: Encyclopedia Ii - Ireland 1691-1801 - Culture
Some historians argue that there were two cultures existing side by side in eighteenth century Ireland, which had little contact with eac...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ireland 1691-1801: Encyclopedia Ii - Ireland 1691-1801 - Economic Situation
In the wake of the wars of conquest of the 17th century, Irish antagonism towards England was aggravated by the economic situation of Ire...   » Read the article