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The Irish Rebellion of 1641 [a] was an uprising in Ireland, initiated on 23 October 1641 by Catholic gentry and military officers. Their demands included an end to anti-Catholic discrimination, greater Irish self-governance, and return of confiscated Catholic lands .
The Proclamation of Dungannon was a document produced by Sir Phelim O'Neill on 24 October 1641 in the Irish town of Dungannon. [1] O'Neill was one of the leaders of the Irish Rebellion, which had been launched the previous day. O'Neill's Proclamation set out a justification of the uprising.
The English Parliament imposed an extremely harsh settlement on the Irish population, driven by antipathy to the Catholic religion, and to punish Irish Catholics for the rebellion of 1641. Also, Parliament needed to raise money to pay the army and to provide land to those who had subsidised the war under the Adventurers Act back in 1640.
March: the Irish Catholic Bishops convene a meeting at Armagh about how to bring the rebellion under control and channel it into the pursuit of Catholic political aims. April 3, 10,000 Scottish troops land in Ulster, sent by the Scottish Parliament to put down the rebellion. English reinforcements land at Dublin and Cork from February to May.
Irish Rebellion of 1641: Part of the Eleven Years' War: 1642–49 Confederate War: Part of the Eleven Years' War 1649–53 Cromwellian conquest of Ireland: Part of the Eleven Years' War 1689–91 Williamite–Jacobite War: Part of the War of the Grand Alliance: 1798 Irish Rebellion of 1798: 1803 Irish Rebellion of 1803: 1831–36 Tithe War: 1848
Irish Republican Brotherhood, Irish Citizen Army, Irish Volunteers, Cumann na mBan: 1919–22 Irish Republic: War of Independence: Irish Republican Army (1917–22), Cumann na mBan: 1939–40 England Sabotage Campaign: Irish Republican Army (1922-1969) 1942–44 Republic of Ireland-United Kingdom border: Northern Campaign: Irish Republican Army ...
The Young Irelander Rebellion was a failed Irish nationalist uprising led by the Young Ireland movement, [1] part of the wider Revolutions of 1848 that affected most of Europe. It took place on 29 July 1848 at Farranrory, a small settlement about 4.3 km north-northeast of the village of Ballingarry, South Tipperary .
It was passed by the Long Parliament on 19 March 1642 as a way of raising funds to suppress the Irish Rebellion of 1641. [2] The Act invited members of the public to invest £200 for which they would receive 1,000 acres (400 ha; 4.0 km 2) of lands that would be confiscated from rebels in Ireland. 2.5 million acres (1.0 million hectares; 10,000 square kilometres) of Irish land were set aside by ...