Ireland History – Northern Irish History Belfast Dublin

Confederation of Kilkenny Hitherto the old Irish and the old Anglo-Irish Catholics had acted without concert. Rut the Catholic clergy exerted themselves to bring about union; and on the 24th of October, 1642, a general assembly or parliament-delegates of the most distinguished persons from both sides-met in Kilkenny: this is known as the ” Confederation [...]

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 [...]