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Williamite War

Subject: History, Regional and National History

(1689–91), between supporters of James II and William III. Despite James's fall in England, Tyrconnell remained in control of most of Ireland. In Munster Justin MacCarthy ...

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The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature

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Current Version:
2003
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Literature
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206 words

...Belleek (7 May) and Newtownbutler (31 July). A Williamite army under Marshal Schomberg landed at Belfast in August 1689 , but failed to move beyond Ulster until William arrived and took personal charge on 14 June 1690 . Victory at the Battle of the Boyne allowed the Williamites to take Dublin. In 1691 the Williamites captured Athlone and won a major victory at Aughrim (12 July). The Jacobites under Sarsfield held out in Limerick, surrendering on terms (the Treaty of Limerick) on 3 October. The Williamite victory, followed by the enactment of the ...

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The Oxford Companion to Irish History (2 ed.)

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2007
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History, Regional and National History
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756 words

...arrested some of those involved. A Williamite proclamation on 7 July 1691 offered only limited assurances, but the articles of Galway provided more attractive surrender terms and the conversion of Sarsfield to negotiations cleared the way for the war to end with the treaty of Limerick . The war was both an episode in a major European conflict and an Irish civil war. Despite the penal laws , the main outcome was to confirm the Protestant dominance of Irish society already established at the Restoration. The Williamite land settlement was also limited in...

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Brewer's Dictionary of Irish Phrase & Fable

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2011
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Language reference, History of English, Literature, Literary theory and cultural studies
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346 words

... War . The war between the supporters of William III ( King Billy ) and the Jacobites – the supporters of the deposed James II . Also known as the War of the Three Kings (Louis XIV of France being the third), it was a part of the warfare carried on by Louis from 1689 against the Grand Alliance of Spain, Britain, Holland, Bavaria, Austria and Pope Innocent XI , an alliance formed with the aim of preventing further territorial expansion by France. After William had taken the English throne, James fled to France and was quickly accepted as a useful...

Williamite War

Williamite War  

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History, Regional and National History
(1689–91),between supporters of James II and William III. Despite James's fall in England, Tyrconnell remained in control of most of Ireland. In Munster Justin MacCarthy suppressed Protestant ...
Williamite confiscations

Williamite confiscations  

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The disposal of land forfeited by supporters of James II following the Williamite War. Confiscation was by individual indictments for treason, leading to outlawry and forfeiture of possessions. The ...
rapparee

rapparee  

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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 ...
Virtue Rewarded, or the Irish Princess

Virtue Rewarded, or the Irish Princess  

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(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.
Irish Parliament

Irish Parliament  

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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 ...
Ginkel, Godard van Reede, Baron van

Ginkel, Godard van Reede, Baron van  

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(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.[...]
Seanchas na Sceiche

Seanchas na Sceiche  

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(‘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 ...
Rapparee

Rapparee  

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(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.[...]
White Cockade

White Cockade  

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(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 ...
La Touche

La Touche  

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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 ...
ascendancy

ascendancy  

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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 ...
siege of Derry

siege of Derry  

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(18 Apr.–31 July 1689),in the Williamite War. Despite the earlier defiance of the Apprentice Boys, Derry's open allegiance to William III began only on 21 March, when the ship ...
Boyne Water

Boyne Water  

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(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 ...
Fortunes of Colonel Torlogh O'Brien

Fortunes of Colonel Torlogh O'Brien  

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(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 ...
articles of Galway

articles of Galway  

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(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 ...
Irish Brigade

Irish Brigade  

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(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 ...
Abercorn

Abercorn  

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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 ...

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