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First six months of 1921
- The first six months of 1921 were by far the most violent period of the Irish War of Independence. In late 1920, a halt to the violence had looked possible.
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Dec 17, 2020 · If 1920 was one of the bleakest years in Irish history since the land war of the 1880s, the New Year heralded an even more violent one as the Irish War of Independence entered a final and...
- 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...
Nov 12, 2021 · For 30 years, Northern Ireland was scarred by a period of deadly sectarian violence known as “the Troubles.”. This explosive era was fraught with car bombings, riots and revenge killings that...
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Aug 4, 2021 · By the summer of 1921, Ireland’s bid for independence from Great Britain had all but reached an impasse. After nearly two-and-a-half years of fighting, the Irish Republican Army (IRA) had ...
- Meilan Solly
The 17th century was perhaps the bloodiest in Ireland's history. Two periods of war (1641–53 and 1689–91) caused a huge loss of life. The ultimate dispossession of most of the Irish Catholic landowning class was engineered, and recusants were subordinated under the Penal Laws.
Jul 27, 2020 · The Irish News, the principal nationalist newspaper, deemed it as 'a carnival of terrorism'. Nationalists, north and south saw the intermittent violence as a pogrom against the Catholic community ...
The Troubles of the 1920s was a period of conflict in what is now Northern Ireland from June 1920 until June 1922, during and after the Irish War of Independence and the partition of Ireland. It was mainly a communal conflict between Protestant unionists, who wanted to remain part of the United Kingdom, and Catholic Irish nationalists, who ...
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