[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20130507-HistoryIrelandShow-020The1641Depositions.mp3″] Click the Play button to listen To download file, right click this link and select “Save link as..” @ Donegal County Museum, Letterkenny, Saturday 16 April @ 3pm @ Tower Museum, Derry, Sunday 17 April @ 3pm 1641 Depositions with Mícheál Ó Siochrú (TCD), Jane Ohlmeyer (TCD), Patrick Fitzgerald (Ulster American Folk Park) … Read more
Following the 1641 uprising, the Confederate wars and the Cromwellian conquest, the English Commonwealth was obliged to redeem debts owed to soldiers and adventurers with land in Ireland seized from Catholic rebels. The adventurers comprised mainly London merchants and English landowners who had put up money at the start of the war to fund the … Read more
What are they? The 1641 Depositions are witness testimonies by mainly Protestant men and women, from all social backgrounds, concerning their experiences of the 1641 Irish rebellion. The testimonies document losses of goods and chattels, military activity and the alleged crimes of the Catholic Irish rebels, including assault, imprisonment, the stripping of clothes and murder. This body … Read more
The 1641 rebellion has attracted a good deal of attention in recent years thanks to the online release of the ‘1641 Depositions’, collected from Protestant survivors in the aftermath. But as John Gibney explains, Irish Catholics had their own views on what had happened in 1641. When agents of the Irish … Read more
In the 1630s King Charles I devoted considerable resources to increasing the strength of the royal navy by building large ships such as the Sovereign of the Seas. In 1642, however, at the outbreak of civil war in England, the bulk of the navy sided with parliament rather than with the king. By the summer … Read more