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’s 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, 1688–1691 (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 ‘The War of the Three Kings, 1688-1691’ by Robert Armstrong
James Kelly (ed.), Cambridge History of Ireland Vol III (Cambridge University Press, 2018), especially ‘Irish Jacobitism, 1691-1790’ by Vincent Morley, ‘The Politics of Protestant Ascendancy, 1730-90’ by James Kelly and Ìý‘The Catholic Church and Catholics in an era of sanctions and restraints, 1690-1790’ by Thomas O’Connor and ‘The Irish in Europe in the Eighteenth century 1691-1815’ by Liam Chambers
Pádraig Lenihan, Consolidating Conquest: Ireland 1603-1727 (Routledge, 2014)
Pádraig 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 ‘The War of the Two Kings 1685-91’ by J.G. Simms
Thomas O’Connor, Irish Voices from the Spanish Inquisition (Palgrave, 2016)
Jane Ohlmeyer (ed.), Cambridge History Of Ireland Vol II (Cambridge University Press, 2018), especially ‘The Down survey and the Cromwellian Land Settlement’ by Micheál Ó Siochrú and David Brown
J. G. Simms, The Treaty of Limerick (Dundalgan Press, 1965)
Maureen Wall, The Penal Laws, 1691–1760: Church and State from the Treaty of Limerick to the Accession of George III (Dundalgan Press, 1961)
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