Hi Patricia,
This timeline is from Ron Kavana's Irish Ways, The Story Of Ireland in song, music, and poetry.
- 1607: O'Neill & fellow Earls flee to Europe from Lough Swilly in the Flight of the Earls.
- 1609: Plantation Articles grant confiscated lands of Earls - almost all of Ulster - to Protestant colonists.
- 1641: Rebellious assaults upon the settler population by embittered & dispossessed natives.
- 1649: English Civil War ends. Cromwell puts Drogheda & Wexford to sword, dispossesses almost all Catholic landowners in country of a total of 11 million acres in "To Hell or Connaught" campaign.
- 1685: James II succees English throne. Feared by Protestants to be Catholic sympathiser.
- 1689: William of Orange replaces James after invitation from leading members of Parliament
- 1690: James rallies with French aid but Jacobites defeated by William at Boyne & Aughrim
- 1691: Treaty of Limerick allows Sarsfield & troops to sail for Europe in the Flight of Wild Geese.
- 1695 to 1729: Passing of Penal Laws against Catholics &, to a slightly lesser extent, Dissenters, in blatant contravention of terms of Treaty of Limerick which guaranteed no religious persecution.
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I think you are needing to read about the Penal laws. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_Laws_(Ireland)
All the best,
James McNamara
Feakle liaison, feakle@irelandxo.com
