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  2. List of massacres in Ireland - Wikipedia

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    His soldiers routinely killed all men, women and children in their path, as well as any livestock they encountered in order to deprive the rebels of sustenance. 1574, November Clandeboye massacre: Belfast 200 A massacre of The O'Neills of Lower Clandeboye by the English Forces of Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex. 1575 Rathlin Island massacre

  3. Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652 - Wikipedia

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    The Act includes a list of a 104 men who were excluded from pardon for life and estate. This list includes members of the nobility, the landed gentry, army officers, and clergy. It includes royalists as well as supporters of the Confederation. The first ten people on this list are: James Butler, 12th Earl of Ormond

  4. Second Desmond Rebellion - Wikipedia

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    The destruction of so many important landed families in Ireland and colonisation of their lands with English settlers meant that the Second Desmond Rebellion was one of the most important events in the Tudor conquest of Ireland – a century long process which saw all of Ireland under English control by 1603. The killing of many of the Irish ...

  5. Plantations of Ireland - Wikipedia

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    Political boundaries in Ireland in 1450, before the plantations. The first Plantations of Ireland occurred during the Tudor conquest.The Dublin Castle administration intended to pacify and anglicise Irish territories controlled by the Crown and incorporate the Gaelic Irish aristocracy into the English-controlled Kingdom of Ireland by using a policy of surrender and regrant.

  6. Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Wikipedia

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    In 1641–42 Irish insurgents in Ulster killed some 4,000 Protestant settlers who had settled on land confiscated from their former Catholic owners. These events were magnified in Protestant propaganda as an attempt by Irish Catholics to exterminate the English Protestant settlers in Ireland, with English Parliamentarian pamphlets claiming that ...

  7. Category : People killed during The Troubles (Northern Ireland)

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    Pages in category "People killed during The Troubles (Northern Ireland)" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  8. Ulster Scots people - Wikipedia

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    During the Irish Rebellion of 1641, the native Irish gentry attempted to extirpate the English and Scottish settlers in revenge for being driven off their ancestral land, resulting in severe violence, massacres and ultimately leading to the deaths of between four and six thousand settlers over the winter of 1641–42. [17]

  9. List of conflicts in Ireland - Wikipedia

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    1355 – The English of West Connaught defeated Mac William Burke, and killed many of his people Clanricarde defeats the Mayo Bourkes and the Siol Anmchadha [citation needed] 1356 – Baile-Locha-Deacair [citation needed] 1358 – Hugh O Neill defeats the Fer Managh and Orial. O More defeats the English of Dublin in battle [citation needed]