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The Tudor policies in Ireland sparked the Desmond Rebellions (1569–1573, 1579–1583) and the Nine Years' War (1594–1603). [1] Despite Spanish support for Irish Catholics during the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) , by 1603 the entire country was under English rule .
The fifty years from 1641 to 1691 saw two catastrophic periods of civil war in Ireland 1641–53 and 1689–91, which killed hundreds of thousands of people and left others in permanent exile. The wars, which pitted Irish Catholics against British forces and Protestant settlers, ended in the almost complete dispossession of the Catholic landed ...
After their successful conquest of England, the Normans turned their attention to Ireland. Ireland was made a lordship of the King of England and much of its land was seized by Norman barons. With time, Hiberno-Norman rule shrank to a territory known as the Pale , stretching from Dublin to Dundalk . [ 2 ]
Beginning in the 1530s, successive English administrations tried to expand English control over Ireland (See Tudor conquest of Ireland). By the 1560s, their attention had turned to the south of Ireland and Henry Sidney , as Lord Deputy of Ireland , was charged with establishing the authority of the English government over the independent ...
This is a List of Tudor rebellions, ... who ruled over England and parts of Ireland between 1485 and 1603. ... 1593–1603 - Tyrone's Rebellion (Nine Years' War) 1596 ...
Tudor conquest of Ireland, invasion begun by Henry VIII of England after he was declared King of Ireland (16th century). Spanish Landing in Ireland by Habsburg Spain During the Nine Years' War (October 1601) Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, invasion of Ireland by English Parliamentarians during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1649–53).
This is a chronological list of armed conflicts involving Ireland and the United Kingdom.Both sides have fought a total of 15 armed conflicts against each other, with 1 of them being an Irish victory, 12 of them being a British victory, 1 having another result and 1 being an internal conflict (civil war).
There followed an expansion of English control during the Tudor conquest. This sparked the Desmond Rebellions and the Nine Years' War. The conquest of the island was completed early in the 17th century. It involved the confiscation of land from the native Irish Catholics and its colonisation by Protestant settlers from Britain.