Ireland History – Northern Irish History Belfast Dublin

Religious Trouble At the time of the Restoration the population of Ireland was about- 1,100,000: of whom 800,000 were Roman Catholics-including the old English who were nearly all Catholics ; 200,000 Nonconformist Protestants, or Puritans, and 100,000 episcopal Protestants, belonging to the Established Church. The new Cromwellian settlers were almost all Puritans. Both sections of [...]

James In 1685 fames II succeeded his brother as king of England. He was a Roman Catholic, and his accession gave great joy to the Catholics of Ireland, and corresponding alarm to the Protestants. He soon entered on the dangerous task of gradually restoring tlie Catholic religion in both countries. Colonel Talbot (619;, a strict [...]