After an evening spent drinking with Irish conspirators, an inebriated Owen Connelly confessed to the main colonial administrators in Ireland that a plot was afoot to root out and destroy Ireland's English and Protestant population. Within days English colonists in Ireland believed that a widespread massacre of Protestant settlers was taking place. Desperate for aid, they began to canvass their colleagues in England for help, claiming that they were surrounded by an evil popish menace bent on destroying their community. Soon sworn statements, later called the 1641 depositions, confirmed their...
After an evening spent drinking with Irish conspirators, an inebriated Owen Connelly confessed to the main colonial administrators in Ireland that a p...
Part of the Maynooth Studies in Local History series. Why do a number of children look like the local dean? Did you hear that the bishop did not like the communion wine and spat it out, exclaiming "this is the basest wine I have ever tasted"? Such issues were hot topics of conversation in east Ulster in the 1690s. Despite the Williamite triumph after the wars of 1689-91 and the seeming deliverance of Irish Protestants from Catholic tyranny, the Church of Ireland faced numerous structural challenges - most notably in the diocese of Down and Connor. A number of concerns, not least of which was...
Part of the Maynooth Studies in Local History series. Why do a number of children look like the local dean? Did you hear that the bishop did not like ...