Ireland History – Northern Irish History Belfast Dublin

Above: A PICTURE OF THOMAS WENTWORTH The EARL OF STRAFFORD, 1641. AFTER the fall of Strafford the Irish Government was administered by two Lord Justices, Parsons and Borlase. Both were supposed to be Puritanical in their sympathies, and soon they made themselves most unpopular. Both opposed the concessions to the Catholics, which Charles, anxious for [...]

The insurrection as well as the conspiracy and civil war that followed it, suffered from the first from the great diversity of aims of those who took part in it. Many sought no more than a free Parliament, complete toleration for the Catholic religion, a rescinding of the land confiscations and fixity of tenure in [...]