Ireland and The Troubles

Also because she of the Catholic King Philip of Spain who tried to invade her. This made her connections with the catholics even more tentative. This made the Catholics cross, and they hated how they could just have their land taken away from them. King James re-enforced this, so they were still cross, and were loosing even more land, so they were left with almost none. This also decreased the affiliation with the Protestants.

In 1641 there was yet another rebellion against the English by the Irish, and 12,000 Protestants died, but this did nothing to improve the quality of life for them , because it just made them hate the catholics even more, and also made them much more suspicious of them. The rebellion finally ended, thousands of Catholics and Protestants were killed. Oliver Cromwell, who was the eqivilent monarch at the time managed to kill and deter the catholic rebels at Drogheda and Wexford. In this time thousands of Catholics were killed. Thousands of acres of land had then been conviscated from the Catholic land owners. He made a policy of giving this Catholic land to the protestants. The Catholics killed the Protestants by pushing them off bridges and into water, then firing guns at them until they were all dead, when they had finished they walked dry shod across the dead bodies the lay in the river.

James the second went to Ireland, because he was a Catholic and he wanted to turn England back into a Catholic country. He fled from England to Ireland, and he wanted to use Ireland as a way to get his country back with the help of France. William of Orange went to Ireland to defeat King James and he succeeded in the battle of Boyne. James was aided by his cousin who was King of France at the time this helped him to keep the throne. The siege of Londonderry happened when James arrived in Ireland with 6000 French soldiers and Irish Catholics. They arrived at Londonderry and demanded a surrender, however the guards of the city shot back at him and they refused to surrender. The siege persisted for 105 days, in that time there were terrible conditions, many cannonballs were being fired and they were living under a constant rain of mortar bombs. There was much famine and disease. Half of the population died.

The battle of Boyne took place near Drogheda in Ireland. It was fought between William of Orange and King James VII. It was a war of religion, William was a Protestant who wanted to keep England Protestant and James was Catholic, and he wanted England to return to being Roman Catholic. Each of the armies took one bank from the river Boyne, James was easily defeated, due to the fact that most of his armies were new recruits who didn’t know how to fight.