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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 Portadown massacre took place in November 1641 at Portadown, County Armagh, during the Irish Rebellion of 1641.Irish Catholic rebels, likely under the command of Toole McCann, killed about 100 Protestant settlers by forcing them off the bridge into the River Bann and shooting those who tried to swim to safety.
The siege of Drogheda took place from 21 November 1641 to February 1642 during the Irish Rebellion of 1641. A Catholic force under Féilim Ó Néill laid siege to the town but failed to wrest the garrison from the Royalists. During the siege, the Irish rebels made three attempts to break into and capture the town.
Depicting an atrocity committed upon civilians during the Irish Rebellion of 1641. The Laggan Army, sometimes referred to as the Lagan Army, was a militia formed by Protestant settlers in the fertile Laggan district in the east of County Donegal in Ulster, during the time of the Irish Rebellion of 1641.
The Irish Confederate Wars, also called the Eleven Years' War (Irish: Cogadh na hAon-déag mBliana), took place in Ireland between 1641 and 1653. It was the Irish theatre of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, a series of civil wars in the kingdoms of Ireland, England and Scotland – all ruled by Charles I.
1641: Irish Rebellion – Equal rights for Catholics to hold public office: 08: 1641: Irish Rebellion – An end to land confiscations: 08: 1641: Irish Rebellion: The following events mark the beginning of the Irish Rebellion: 10: 22: 1641: Irish Rebellion – On October 22, 1641, Irish rebels surprise and capture six English forts in Ulster ...
Connor (or Cornelius) Maguire, 2nd Baron of Enniskillen (Irish: Conchobhar Mag Uidhir; 1616–1645) was an Irish nobleman from Ulster who took part in the Irish Rebellion of 1641. He was executed for high treason.
Alongside his older brother, Connor Maguire, he was a prime mover in the conspiracy which led to the outbreak of rebellion in Ireland on 23 October 1641. Maguire was tasked with securing County Fermanagh for the rebels, but was only partially successful, with several key fortresses in the county, including Enniskillen Castle , remaining under ...