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Baldongan Castle, 1642, the Irish Rebellion of 1641 and Trinity College Dublin

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Baldongan CastleI live about 200 metres from Baldongan Castle where, in June 1642, a 200-strong garrison of Irish rebels were put to the sword by English Parliamentary forces. The events surrounding the massacre stem from the Irish Rebellion of 1641, an uprising initiated in a time of deteriorating conditions in Ireland, which was under English rule, and a breakdown in relations between the English king, Charles I, and the English parliament. The 1641 rebellion in Ireland was undertaken in support of the king against the parliament, as the Irish feared that they would lose property and status if the powers of the king were limited and parliament prevailed. The parliament included a man who would be remembered in infamy in many parts of Ireland, Oliver Cromwell, prior to his brutal conquest of Ireland, which began in 1649 with the infamous Drogheda Massacre.

Trinity College Dublin has just opened an exhibition in the Long Room of its Old Library entitled ‘Ireland in Turmoil: the 1641 Depositions’ concerning this bloody period in Irish history. The President of Ireland, Mary McAleese opened the exhibition. Also attending was Lord Bannside (formerly Dr. Ian Paisley). A website concerning the period has also been launched. It is a free resource and contains the transcribed and digitised 1641 Depositions, which are witness testimonies of the violent massacres of the 1641 Irish Rebellion. The project was a joint undertaking between Trinity College Dublin, the University of Aberdeen and the University of Cambridge.

The online publication of the 1641 Depositions was funded by the Irish Research Council of the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS), Trinity College Dublin and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)  in the UK. The exhibition ‘Ireland in Turmoil: The 1641 Depositions’ runs until April 3rd 2011 in the Long Room, Old Library, Trinity College Dublin. I’ve spent some hours on the website already and discovered some fascinating information and harrowing tales. I recommend it to readers.

Links:

University of Aberdeen News Release

University of Cambridge News Release

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