The Treaty of Limerick
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the impact of the treaty ending the Williamite War in 1691, with the disbanding of the Jacobite army and assertion of rights for the defeated gentry
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1691 peace treaty that ended the Williamite War in Ireland, between supporters of the deposed King James II and the forces of William III and his allies. It followed the battles at Aughrim and the Boyne and sieges at Limerick, and led to the disbanding of the Jacobite army in Ireland, with troops free to follow James to France for his Irish Brigade. The Catholic landed gentry were guaranteed rights on condition of swearing loyalty to William and Mary yet, while some Protestants thought the terms too lenient, it was said the victors broke those terms before the ink was dry.
The image above is from British Battles on Land and Sea, Vol. I, by James Grant, 1880, and is meant to show Irish troops leaving Limerick as part of The Flight of the Wild Geese - a term used for soldiers joining continental European armies from C16th-C18th.
With
Jane Ohlmeyer
Chair of the Irish Research Council and Erasmus Smith鈥檚 Professor of Modern History at Trinity College Dublin
Dr Clare Jackson
Senior Tutor, Trinity Hall, and Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
and
Thomas O'Connor
Professor of History at Maynooth University
Producer: Simon Tillotson
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LINKS AND FURTHER READING
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READING LIST:
John Childs, The Williamite Wars in Ireland, 1688鈥�1691 (Hambledon Continuum, 2007)
Tim Harris, Revolution: The Great Crisis of the British Monarchy (Allen Lane, 2006)
Alvin Jackson (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History (Oxford University Press, 2014), especially 鈥楾he War of the Three Kings, 1688-1691鈥� by Robert Armstrong
James Kelly (ed.), Cambridge History of Ireland Vol III (Cambridge University Press, 2018), especially 鈥業rish Jacobitism, 1691-1790鈥� by Vincent Morley, 鈥楾he Politics of Protestant Ascendancy, 1730-90鈥� by James Kelly and 听鈥楾he Catholic Church and Catholics in an era of sanctions and restraints, 1690-1790鈥� by Thomas O鈥機onnor and 鈥楾he Irish in Europe in the Eighteenth century 1691-1815鈥� by Liam Chambers
P谩draig Lenihan, Consolidating Conquest: Ireland 1603-1727 (Routledge, 2014)
P谩draig Lenihan, The Last Cavalier: Richard Talbot 1631-91 (University College Dublin Press, 2003)
T.W. Moody, F.X Martin and F.J. Byrne (eds.), A New History of Ireland Vol III: Early Modern Ireland 1534-1691 (Oxford University Press, 1976), especially 鈥楾he War of the Two Kings 1685-91鈥� by J.G. Simms
Thomas O鈥機onnor, Irish Voices from the Spanish Inquisition (Palgrave, 2016)
Jane Ohlmeyer (ed.), Cambridge History Of Ireland Vol II (Cambridge University Press, 2018), especially 鈥楾he Down survey and the Cromwellian Land Settlement鈥� by Miche谩l 脫 Siochr煤 and David Brown
J. G. Simms, The Treaty of Limerick (Dundalgan Press, 1965)
Maureen Wall, The Penal Laws, 1691鈥�1760: Church and State from the Treaty of Limerick to the Accession of George III (Dundalgan Press, 1961)
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