Ireland History – Northern Irish History Belfast Dublin

While the Talbots and Butlers were thus rivals for official power, the Geraldines of both Desmond and Kildare were excluded from the favour of the House of Lancaster. Eventually, however, the struggle forced Ormonde to cultivate the friendship of one of his traditional rivals. James, Seventh Earl of Desmond, had succeeded to the Earldom by [...]

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 [...]