The Williamite Wars in Ireland

by Childs, John

• ISBN13: 9781847251640
• ISBN10: 1847251641
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-06-15
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

The Comprehensive Defeat of the Jacobite Irish in the Williamite conflict, a component within the pan-European Nine Years' War, prevented the exiled James II from regaining his English throne, ended realistic prospects of a Stuart restoration and partially secured the new regime of King William III and Queen Mary created by the Glorious Revolution. The principal events - the Siege of Londonderry, the Battles of the Boyne and Aughrim, and the two Sieges and Treaty of Limerick - have subsequently become totems around which opposing constructions of Irish history have been erected.

Author Biography

John Childs is Professor of Military History and Director of the Centre for Military History in the University of Leeds

Table of Contents

Maps	p. vii
Abbreviations	p. xix
Note on dates	p. xxi
Note on distances	p. xxi
Note on spelling and punctuation	p. xxi
Note on maps and place names	p. xxi
Preface	p. xxiii
Preliminaries, 1688	p. 1
Practical matters	p. 15
Towards war, 1689	p. 33
The Break of Dromore and the retreat to Coleraine	p. 51
Clady and the Ards Peninsula	p. 69
The defence of Derry and Enniskillen	p. 85
General Kirke	p. 103
Endurance	p. 119
The relief of Derry and Newtownbutler	p. 133
A tired old man	p. 147
Sligo and Dundalk	p. 169
Winter operations, 1689-90	p. 185
The Battle of the Boyne	p. 205
From Dublin to Limerick	p. 227
The first siege of Limerick	p. 247
Cork and Kinsale	p. 267
A war of posts and ambuscades	p. 281
Spring, 1691	p. 299
Ballymore and Athlone	p. 313
Aughrim and Galway	p. 329
The curious affair at Sligo, or the banalities of the small war	p. 347
The second siege of Limerick	p. 365
Dispersal	p. 385
Notes	p. 395
Select bibliography	p. 417
Index	p. 427
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