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To deter the use of Confederate Irish soldiers in England the Long Parliament passed the Ordinance of no quarter to the Irish in October 1644. The nuncio considered himself the virtual head of the Confederate Catholic party in Ireland. In 1646 the Supreme Council of the Confederates had come to an agreement with Ormonde, signed on 28 March 1646.
The Irish Confederates: formed in October 1642, the Confederation of Kilkenny was initially a rebel Irish Catholic movement, fighting against the English troops sent to put down the rebellion, though they insisted they were at war with the king's advisers and not with Charles himself. They also had to fight the Scottish army that landed in Ulster.
Kilkenny was a fortified town which was divided into three self-contained walled districts: High Town was next to the Kilkenny Castle and bounded on the east by the River Nore; Irish Town was also bounded on the east by the River Nore and stood adjacent to the northern wall of High Town; St. John's was on the eastern bank of the River Nore and connected to High Town by St. John's Bridge.
June, Battle of Benburb, a Scottish Covenanter army is smashed by the Confederate Ulster Army under Owen Roe O'Neill. Confederate troops take Roscommon. Confederate Armies under Preston and O'Neill march on Kilkenny to reject the Ormonde peace. Those who signed it are arrested. O'Neill and Preston besiege Dublin, held by the Royalist Earl of ...
1398 – Eachdruim Mac n-Aodha – the O Tooles and O Byrnes defeat the Anglo-Irish, killing the Earl of March [citation needed] 1398 – Magh-Tuiredh – O Conchobair Roe and allies defeated by McDonagh [citation needed] 1399 – Battle of Tragh-Bhaile – the Anglo-Irish defeat the sons of Henry O Neill [citation needed]
John Ponsonby (1608–1678) was a colonel in Oliver Cromwell's army during the Irish Confederate Wars, a member of parliament for two different Irish counties following the Parliamentarian's victory and a significant landowner granted confiscated properties in Counties Donegal, Kilkenny and Limerick.
Kilkenny Castle, capital of Confederate Ireland. The outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641 put the Old English into alliance with the Gaelic Irish. Returning to Galway in February 1642, D'Arcy and Martyn seem to have tried at first to work out a common policy that would not lead them into outright rebellion. But events soon took a course of ...
The 3rd Infantry Battalion (3rd Inf Bn; Irish: 3ú Cathlán Coisithe) is one of the seven current infantry battalions of the Irish Army. It is the oldest still established unit of the Army, and is headquartered in Stephens Barracks, Kilkenny as part of 1st Brigade.