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The Execution of Earl of Strafford 1641
In 1641 the newly summoned Parliament launched an indirect attack against King Charles I, by executing one of his most loyal lieutenants for treason.
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The New Model Army 1645
In 1645, the English Parliament ordered the creation of a New Model Army under the command of Thomas Fairfax. The army got its first major test at the Battle of Naseby.
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The Battle of Newburn 1640
Against the advice of many, Charles organized another English army in 1640 to go and fight the Scottish Covenanters.
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The Short Parliament of 1640
In 1640, Charles I called his first Parliament in eleven years. Instead of getting the funding he wanted for war with Scotland, he got an ear-full of English indignation.
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The First Bishops' War 1639
In the wake of the Prayer Book Crisis, the Scottish Convenanter army marched to England. Charles I formed his own rag-tag army to meet them in the first of two Bishop's W
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The Scottish Prayer Book Crisis, 1637
In 1637, King Charles I and Archbishop William Laud tried to enforce the use of a new prayer book in Scotland. The result was riot, rebellion, and war.
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Laudianism
Charles I's appointment of William Laud as Archbishop of Canterbury in 1633 caused a deepening divide within the Protestant Church of England.
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Charles I's Ship Money
During the 1630's Charles I experimented with a number of ways to raise money without recourse to parliament. His ship money scheme finally led to a court battle.
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Hugh O'Neill meets Robert Devereux
In 1599, Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone and Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, left their opposing armies and meet alone in river to discuss the fate of Ireland.
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The Ulster Cycle
Containing over eighty stories, including the famous Táin Bo Cúailnge (The Cattle Raid of Cooley) the Ulster Cycle is the largest of the Irish Mythological Cycles.
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Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-91)
Charles Parnell was one of Ireland's greatest politicians. He backed the common Irish during the Land War and later devoted his life to the cause of Home Rule for Ireland
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Cromwell's Wars at Sea
In his book from Pen & Sword, English Civil War Expert John Barratt offers an interesting and highly readable survey of England's wars at sea during the Interregnum.
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The Act of Union 1800
After the Irish rebellion of 1798, the British Prime Minister, William Pitt the Younger assigned two of his best men to bring Ireland into union with Great Britain.
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Henry Grattan (1746-1820)
Henry Grattan led the Irish Patriots in their quest for full legislative independence from England.
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The First Performance of Handel's Messiah
In reaction to the great famine in 1741, the Charitable Musical Society invited George Frideric Handel to premiere his new oratorio in Dublin.
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Oliver Plunkett (1625-81) and the Popish Plot
Oliver Plunkett fought hard to restore the Catholic Church after the Confederate War, but the enemies he made would later testify against him during the Popish Plot.
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Sir Charles Coote
Sir Charles Cooted was one of the few Englishmen to survive the Confederate War, English Civil War, and then benefit from the Act of Settlement.
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Oliver Cromwell in Ireland 1649
During the nine months he spent in Ireland, Oliver Cromwell helped bring an end to the Confederate War and caused the famous massacres at Drogheda and Wexford.
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The O'Rahilly
A loyal Irish Volunteer, The O'Rahilly tried to prevent the Easter Rising, he then died fighting in it.
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The Flight of the Earls, 1607
A few years after his defeat in the Nine Years War, Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone and many of his supporters fled Ireland.
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Pirate Hunter
The new book by Graham A. Thomas tells the little related story of Woodes Rogers, an English treasure hunter who eventually became the governor of the Bahamas.
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Silken Thomas
When his father was arrested by the English King, Lord Offlay, better known as 'Silken Thomas' launched an Irish rebellion against the English.
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The Second Barons' War – A Review
John Sadler's new book examines the bloody civil war between a group of English Barons and the Royal Family of Henry III and Prince Edward.
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St. Patrick's Escape
As a young man, Saint Patrick was kidnapped from his home in Britain and spent six years in Ireland before escaping.
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Irish Hurling
The Irish game of Hurling dates back to the ancient Celts and is thus one of the oldest team sports still played.
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