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Abercorn
The family's Irish history began when James Hamilton of Linlithgow (d. 1618), created ist earl of Abercorn in the Scottish peerage in 1606, was granted lands in Co. Tyrone. His ...
aisling
[lit. ‘vision’; pronounced ‘ashling’] A mode of lyrical poetry in late 17th‐ and 18th‐century Irish in which the speaker encounters a spéir‐bhean (‘sky‐woman’), a beautiful maiden representing ...
Anthony Hamilton
(c.1646–1720)Third son of Sir George Hamilton (1607–79), and brother‐in‐law of the comte de Gramont (1621–1707). Hamilton wrote the Mémoires de la vie du comte de Gramont (Memoirs of the ...
articles of Galway
(21 July 1691),agreed at the surrender of the Jacobite garrison following a brief siege in the Williamite War. The terms, securing the inhabitants and garrison in their estates and ...
ascendancy
A term generally used to refer to the Protestant upper classes of Ireland in the 18th cent. and later. The defeat of the Jacobites [see Williamite War] in 1689–91 left ...
Bandon
The largest and in economic terms most successful new town of the Munster plantation. Originally laid out as two towns on opposite banks of the river Bandon by minor players ...
battle of Aughrim
1691.The battle of the Boyne in July 1690 did not end the conflict in Ireland. The Jacobites held Limerick and Galway. The task of subduing them was left to William's Dutch commander, Ginkel, who ...
Battle of the Boyne
(1 July 1690)A major defeat for the Stuart cause which confirmed William III's control over Ireland. It took place near Drogheda, where the recently deposed James II and his Irish and French forces ...
Boyne Water
(1826), a panoramic novel by John Banim dramatizing major events of the Williamite War in Ireland. A bond of ecumenical accord between the Catholic McDonnells and Protestant Evelyns is disrupted by ...
Catholic Relief Acts
A series of Acts freeing RCs from civil disabilities. By that of 1778 RCs were allowed to own land on taking an oath not involving the denial of their religion; in 1791 RC worship and schools were ...
Catholicism
The word derives from the universality of faith in the Christian church, but since the 16th cent. has referred to the portion of Christianity accepting papal authority. It delineates the distinctive ...
Clancarty
Earldom held by the MacCarthys of Muskerry. Donough MacCarthy (1594–1665), Viscount Muskerry, combined Gaelic descent with Old English politics, supporting Ormond (his brother‐in‐law) in the ...
Dáibhí Ó Bruadair
(c.1625–1697)Irish poet, born in east Cork, whose 80 surviving poems bring a huge weight of learning and a mixture of bardic and looser song metrics to bear on their ...
Derry
(Ir. Doire, ‘place of the oaks’), Northern Ireland, commanding the west bank of the Foyle estuary. The site of a monastery founded by Colum Cille, which was destroyed by the ...
duelling
The first duel in Canada took place in 1646. In the next 200 years about 300 incidents were reported, ranging from challenges not accepted to actual swordplay or gunfire. Duels ...
Fortunes of Colonel Torlogh O'Brien
(1847), a novel by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, first serialized anonymously in the Dublin University Magazine. It is set in the period of the Williamite Wars and tells the story ...
Ginkel, Godard van Reede, Baron van
(1630–1703),created earl of Athlone 1692. An experienced Dutch soldier, he commanded the Williamite army from William III's return to England in September 1690 to the end of the Williamite War.[...]
Glorious Revolution
Title given to the revolution of 1688–9, which resulted in the ‘abdication’ of James II and the succession of William III and Mary II. Participants had differing objectives. Tories and Anglican ...
Huguenot
A French Protestant of the 16th–17th centuries. Largely Calvinist, the Huguenots suffered severe persecution at the hands of the Catholic majority, and many thousands emigrated from France.The name ...
Irish Brigade
(1692–1791), the, a corps in the French service that originated with the 5,000 or 6,000 men brought to France during the Williamite War in exchange for troops sent to assist ...
