1. An Introduction to Irish History
... English as was the king himself. When the queen produced a male heir to confirm the Catholic succession the English Parliament revolted and invited William of Orange, a Dutchman and husband of James II's daughter Mary, to the throne of England. James fled to Ireland and summoned the "Patriot Parliament" which ... the most notorious one being called Defenders, while the Protestants first formed into such organisations as "Peep O' Day" boys and eventually into the Orange Order. Both these organisations were just as crude and violent as their Catholic counterparts. The United Irishmen tended...
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