Ireland History – Northern Irish History Belfast Dublin

Above: The Siege of Derry Tirconnell took immediate measures to secure Ireland for King James. He raised and armed an army of Catholics, and. disarmed the Protestants. He took possession of most of the important places through the country; but the people of Enniskillen refused to admit his garrison. Then began the War of tlie [...]

Above: The Plantation of Ulster We shall now go back a few years. Tlie Catholics still clung to the hope that their religion would be restored. But they found their mistake when king James, in 1605, caused the two penal Acts of supremacy and uniformity to be revived. By the Act of supremacy no Catholic, [...]