Ireland History – Northern Irish History Belfast Dublin

This proved, in the event, to be the last return of Garrett to Ireland. He must have realised that the crisis was approachinor himself and for his country. His enemies were powerful. Anne Boleyn, a relative of Butler, had now won a sinister influence over the King, and Piers Butler had resigned to her father, [...]

The following year the Earl of Surrey came to Ireland as Lord Lieutenant. He was a friend of Piers Ruadh and was related to him (by marriage) through Sir Thomas Boleyn, a grandson of the previous Earl of Ormonde. At first he displayed much activity against various clans who had risen when Kildare was called [...]