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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Irish in foreign armies
Military migration from poorer parts of Europe into the armies of great powers was commonplace during the ancien régime. Irish recruitment into continental armies, especially of Spain and France, ...
La Touche
A prominent banking family of Huguenot origin. David Digues (1671–1745), who took the name of the family estate of La Touche, was a veteran of the Williamite War who had ...
Limerick
LimerickCounty town on the river Shannon. The experience of growing up in a Limerick slum is described in the first volume of Frank McCourt's grim but funny memoir Angela's Ashes (1996).[...]
MacDonnell
The Irish offshoot of the Scottish Highland family of MacDonald, lords of the Isles of Islay and Kintyre, later earls of Antrim. In 1399 John Mór MacDonnell married Margery Bisset ...
militia
The British regionally based volunteer armed forces (from the Latin miles, a soldier). Of Anglo‐Saxon origin or earlier, the militia was established as an obligation for all freemen by the Assize of ...
O'Brien
Successors of the Dál Cais as kings of Thomond in modern Co. Clare. Donogh (Donnchad Cairprech), king 1210–42, accepted a charter from King John for this reduced portion of the ...
O'Hara
Lords of modern Co. Sligo, one of the few Gaelic families to be absorbed into the 18th‐century Protestant landed elite. Cormac O'Hara (d. 1616) obtained a regrant of his lands ...
Patrick Sarsfield
(c. 1650–93).Jacobite earl of Lucan. Born to a catholic family, Sarsfield entered the Irish army in 1678. He then served in the English regiments which Charles II detached to fight in the army of ...
