The Treaty of Limerick

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1691 peace treaty that ended the Williamite War in Ireland, between supporters of the deposed King James II and the forces of William III and his allies. It followed the battles at Aughrim and the Boyne and sieges at Limerick, and led to the disbanding of the Jacobite army in Ireland, with troops free to follow James to France for his Irish Brigade. The Catholic landed gentry were guaranteed rights on condition of swearing loyalty to William and Mary yet, while some Protestants thought the terms too lenient, it was said the victors broke those terms before the ink was dry.

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Guests

• Jane Ohlmeyer No other episodes
  Chair of the Irish Research Council and Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History at Trinity College Dublin
• Dr Clare Jackson 6 episodes
  Senior Tutor, Trinity Hall, and Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
• Thomas O'Connor No other episodes
  Professor of History at Maynooth University

Reading list

• The Williamite Wars in Ireland, 1688-1691
  John Childs (Hambledon Continuum, 2007) Google Books →
• Revolution: The Great Crisis of the British Monarchy
  Tim Harris (Allen Lane, 2006) Google Books →
• The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History
  Alvin Jackson (ed.) (Oxford University Press, 2014) Google Books →
• The Cambridge History of Ireland Vol III
  James Kelly (ed.) (Cambridge University Press, 2018) Google Books →
• Consolidating Conquest: Ireland 1603-1727
  Padraig Lenihan (Routledge, 2014) Google Books →
• The Last Cavalier: Richard Talbot 1631-91
  Padraig Lenihan (University College Dublin Press, 2003) Google Books →
• A New History of Ireland Vol III: Early Modern Ireland 1534-1691
  T.W. Moody, F.X Martin and F.J. Byrne (eds.) (Oxford University Press, 1976) Google Books →
• Irish Voices from the Spanish Inquisition
  Thomas O'Connor (Palgrave, 2016) Google Books →
• The Cambridge History Of Ireland Vol II
  Jane Ohlmeyer (ed.) (Cambridge University Press, 2018) Google Books →
• The Treaty of Limerick
  J. G. Simms (Dundalgan Press, 1965) Google Books →
• The Penal Laws, 1691-1760: Church and State from the Treaty of Limerick to the Accession of George III
  Maureen Wall (Dundalgan Press, 1961) Google Books →

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Hello (First sentence from this episode)

Hello. In 1691, the Treaty of Limerick ended the war in Ireland between supporters of James II, a Catholic, on one side and William and Mary, Protestants, on the other.