← Explore on the interactive map
Outbreak of the Irish Confederate Wars
After the 1641 Ulster uprising, a prolonged armed conflict erupted between Irish Catholics and the English Crown, Parliamentarians, and Scottish Prot…
Timeline
- 1641Ulster · UlsterIrish Catholic nobles such as Phelim O'Neill launched an uprising in Ulster, attacking Protestant colonial settlements and seizing several fortresses; it spread rapidly across Ireland and marked the start of the Confederate Wars.
- 1642Kilkenny · LeinsterIrish Catholic nobles and clergy convened an assembly at Kilkenny, founding the Irish Catholic Confederation, raising a confederate army, and issuing a provisional constitution, turning scattered uprisings into organized armed resistance.
- 1642–1643Dublin · LeinsterThe confederate army faced the Royalist lord deputy's forces, later joined by the English Parliamentarian army and the Scottish Covenanters, forming a complex three- or four-way confrontation, and all of Ireland fell into a prolonged state of war.
Sources
- Irish Confederate Wars https://www.britannica.com/event/Irish-Confederate-Wars
- The Oxford Companion to Irish History — S. J. Connolly (2002)