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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 .
20 January, the Siege of Duncannon begins. 18 March, Duncannonn surrenders to the Confederate force under Thomas Preston. Confederate generals Preston and Castlehaven besiege Youghal but fail to take it. Catholic Bishop Malachy O'Queally is killed leading a Confederate attempt to take Sligo.
The siege of Duncannon took place in 1645, during the Irish Confederate Wars.An Irish Catholic Confederate army under Thomas Preston besieged and successfully took the town of Duncannon in County Wexford from an English Parliamentarian garrison.
January 20–March 18 – Siege of Duncannon: Confederate general Thomas Preston takes Duncannon. April 23 (Saint George's Day) – English Civil War: one hundred and fifty Irish soldiers bound for service with King Charles I of England are captured at sea by Parliamentarians and killed at Pembroke in Wales.
1535 – Siege of Maynooth Castle, the chief residence of Fitzgerald, by English forces [20] ... 2.14.3 Irish Confederate Wars. 2.14.4 Williamite War. 2.15 18th century.
It forms part of the 1641 to 1652 Irish Confederate Wars, and wider 1639 to 1653 Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Modern estimates suggest that during this period, Ireland experienced a demographic loss totalling around 15 to 20% of the pre-1641 population, due to fighting, famine and bubonic plague .
Alasdair Mac Colla Chiotaich MacDhòmhnaill (c. 1610 – 13 November 1647), also known by the English variant of his name Sir Alexander MacDonald, was a military officer best known for his participation in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, notably the Irish Confederate Wars and Montrose's Royalist campaign in Scotland during 1644–45.
Given their large notional power base, the Confederates ultimately failed to manage and reorganise Ireland so as to defend the interests of Irish Catholics. The Irish Confederate Wars and the ensuing Cromwellian conquest of Ireland (1649–53) caused massive loss of life and ended with the confiscation of almost all Irish Catholic-owned land in ...