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Searc's Web Guide to 17th Century Ireland
Chronology
1601 Defeat of O'Neill and O'Donnell's Ulster Army at the Battle of Kinsale.
1603 Surrender of Hugh O'Neill to Elizabeth I's Deputy Mountjoy and enforcement of English law throughout Ireland. Accession of James I.
1607 Flight of the 'Wild Geese' (ruling Gaelic families of Ulster including O'Neills, O'Donnells, O'Dohertys and Maguires) from Donegal to Continental Europe.
1608 (onward) Plantation of Derry and other confiscated Counties was partially successful.
1641 Charles I's policies cause insurrection in Ulster and Civil War in England. 59% of Ireland still held by Catholics.
1642 Irish Rising led by Eoghain Ruadh O'Neill.
1649 Cromwell invades Ireland.
1650 Catholic landowners exiled to Connaught.
1653 Under the Act of Settlement Cromwell's opponents are stripped of their lands.
1660 Accession of Charles II.
1685 Accession of James II.
1688 James II deposed in England. Gates of Derry shut on James's troops. Only 22% of Ireland now held by Catholics.
1689-90 Deposed James II flees to Ireland and is defeated at the Sieges of Derry, Limerick & the Battle of the Boyne.
1691 Catholic defeat at the Battle of Aughrim and surrender at the Siege of Limerick.
1695 14% of land in Ireland now held by Catholics. First penal laws enacted against Catholics and Dissenters.
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People and Texts
Oliver Plunkett (1600-1681)
Phelim Roe O'Neill (1604-1653)
Peter Talbot (1620-1692)
Thomas Delaune (1635-1685)
Bonaventure O'Connye (died 1663)
Phiarais Feirtéir (1600-1653)
Feargal Óg Mac a Bhaird (1550-1620)
Seathrún Céitín (1570-1649)
Brian Mac Giolla Phádraig (1580?-1652)
James Ware (1594-1666)
John Lynch (1599-1673)
Anonymous 17th Century
Maurice Conry (died 1669)
The State of Ireland Under Elizabeth Tudor by Don Philip O'Sullivan Beare (1621)
Proclamation by the Lord Deputy and Council against the Rebels (1668)
CELT - Corpus of Electronic Texts
The CELT Corpus of Electronic Texts is an excellent site, that contains a vast number of Irish cultural, historical, and literary texts (in Irish, Latin, Hiberno-Norman French, and English).