1641 rising

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1641 rising Remembered in Protestant propaganda
Blackpool Pilot Scheme Ireland in Schools
Learning Achievement, CYPD
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The following are depictions of the Irish rising
which commenced in Ulster on 22 October 1641 amid
a constitutional and related economic crisis
convulsing Charles Is multiple monarchy. There
were three plots - a conspiracy by Rory OMore
and Conor Maguire in February 1641 a conspiracy
of army officers disbanded from Wentworths army,
subsequently abandoned and the coalescence of
these earlier plots under Sir Phelim ONeill in
August. The insurrection has traditionally been
seen as a revolt against the Ulster
plantation. However, the main conspirators were
debt-ridden scions of families who were
originally beneficiaries rather than victims of
the plantation.
Cu Chulainn Oliver Sheppard 1914/36
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Cu Chulainn Oliver Sheppard 1914/36
Map showing Tudor and Stuart plantations in
Ireland
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Temple's account of the 1641 rising was perhaps
the most lurid of the sensationalist works of
propaganda produced in the aftermath of the
rising. The allegation that the rising was a
premeditated plot to exterminate the Protestant
population, and the wild exaggeration of the
numbers killed, helped legitimize the
sequestration of Catholic land in the
Adventurers Act and Cromwellian land
settlement. The frequent republication of the
History of the Irish Rebellion - nine times by
1812 - reflected periods of Irish Protestant
anxiety. Conversely, the book was loathed by
Irish Catholics and was publicly burned on the
orders of the Patriot Parliament of 1689.
Title page of Sir John Temples History of the
Irish Rebellion (1646)
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Driving the Protestants
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Drowning of a refugee convoy at Portadown
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Friars looking on at drowning Protestants
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Torturing Mrs Forde
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On the gridiron
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Ravishing virgins wives
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Mangling the minister's body
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Priest anointing rebels before 'they go to the
murther'