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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Irish language
Irish and its offshoots, Scottish Gaelic and Manx, constitute the Gaelic or Goidelic branch of the Celtic languages. Welsh, Cornish, and Breton form the Brythonic or Brittonic group. The extinct ...
Irish Parliament
The (1692–1800). While building on a parliamentary tradition in Ireland that stretched back to 1264, the Irish Parliament in the years following the Williamite victory of 1690-I represented only the ...
Jacobite poetry
The underlying values of Gaelic political poetry for most of the 18th cent. can be identified as Jacobite; and the main poets of the period can be classified as Jacobite ...
John Banim
(1798–1842),novelist, playwright, and poet: b. Kilkenny. The Fetches 1825, Tales by the OἨara Family (with Michael Banim) 1825.
Last Baron of Crana
(1826), a novel by John Banim. Written as a sequel to The Boyne Water (1826), it concerns the fate of two Catholic families in the early Penal years following the ...
Rapparee
(1870), a historical melodrama by Dion Boucicault, set in the west of Ireland after the Battle of the Boyne, and dealing with the defeated Irish gentry on the Jacobite side in the Williamite War.[...]
rapparee
An 18th-cent. Irish Jacobite irregular, from ropairí (half-pikes), the customary weapon of the Catholics who attacked Protestants in the period of the Williamite War. At the collapse of the Jacobite ...
Richard Murphy
(1927– ),Irish poet. Much of his poetry portrays the landscapes and seascapes of Ireland; his publications include The Archeology of Love (1955), Sailing to an Island (1963, which contains his long ...
Robert Ashton
(?1706–?),author of The Battle of Aughrim (1727; earliest extant edition 1756), a four-act play in bombastic verse, much reprinted and frequently acted in Ulster country towns down to the ...
Seanchas na Sceiche
(‘History of the Bush’),a poem by Antoine Raiftearaí which treats of persons and events from Noah and the Flood to Patrick Sarsfield and the Treaty of Limerick [see Williamite War], using a ...
stage-Irishman
A term for stereotypical Irish characters on the English-language stage from the 17th cent., also applied to characters in fiction in whom Irish national characteristics are emphasized or distorted. ...
Virtue Rewarded, or the Irish Princess
(1693),an anonymous romance set in Ireland during the Williamite War. It concerns a German prince who courts an Irish lady in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.
White Cockade
(1905), a ‘folk-history’ play by Lady Gregory produced by the Abbey Theatre and set at the time of the Williamite War. After his defeat, James II tries to escape by ...
